Voting strongly resembles the capitalist economic system that always accompanies democracy.

-- Moxie Marlinspike

I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New

England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be

raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in

New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for

countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere

if they don't get it.

-- Mark Twain

Of course it's extremely easy to say, "The heck with it. I'm just going to adapt myself to the structures of power and authority and do the best I can within them." Sure, you can do that. But that's not acting like a decent person.

-- Noam Chomsky

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie;

and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head

into the shop. "What! no soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently

married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand

Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all

fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran

out at the heels of their boots.

-- Samuel Foote

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what

you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

-- Mark Twain

It is not another state that men aim at, but their union, uniting, this ever-fluid uniting of everything standing.

-- Max Stirner

We must not only act politically, but in our politics act religiously, religiously in the sense of freedom, of which the one true expression is justice and love.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

England is a prison. The variety of subtleties in the laws preserved by the sword are bolts, bars, and doors of the prison; the lawyers are the jailors; and poor men are the prisoners.

-- Gerrard Winstanley

Marxist schools have authors. Just as Marxism sprang from the mind of Marx, so we have Leninists, Maoists, Trotksyites, Gramscians, Althusserians... Now consider the different schools of anarchism. There are Anarcho-Syndicalists, Anarcho-Communists, Insurrectionists, Cooperativists, Individualists, Platformists... None are named after some great thinker; instead, they are invariably named either after some kind of practice, or most often, organizational principle.

-- David Graeber

You are fighting for survival in your own sweet and gentle way.

It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation.

-- Alexander Berkman

Beware of low-flying butterflies.

This flagrant negation of humanity which constitutes the very essence of the state is, from the standpoint of the state, its supreme duty and its greatest virtue.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

-- Frederica Montseny

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

-- Leo Tolstoy

Q: Why do the police always travel in threes?

A: One to do the reading, one to do the writing, and the other keeps

an eye on the two intellectuals.

Your temporary financial embarrassment will be relieved in a surprising manner.

Q: Why did the tachyon cross the road?

A: Because it was on the other side.

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"--which is

but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention;" but the wise

man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and--WATCH THAT BASKET."

-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

If the state would only remove those laws that stand in the way of free land, free money, and transportation, its other statutes would, in course of time, become useless and "repeal" themselves.

-- Joseph Labadie