As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

-- Frederica Montseny

I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none.

-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

If you stand on your head, you will get footprints in your hair.

This was the most unkindest cut of all.

-- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

You are confused; but this is your normal state.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

-- Oscar Wilde

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then?

-- Henry David Thoreau

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

-- Emma Goldman

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

-- Peter Kropotkin

Avert misunderstanding by calm, poise, and balance.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and

enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to

lend money.

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

The Puritans had accused the Quakers of "troubling the world by preaching peace to it." They refused to pay church taxes; they refused to bear arms; they refused to swear allegiance to any government.

-- Voltairine de Cleyre

You will remember something that you should not have forgotten.

The Cold War serves as a useful device for the managers of American society and their counterparts in the Soviet Union to control their own populations and their own respective imperial systems.

-- Noam Chomsky

Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to do a logical right shift?

A: 33. 1 to hold the bits and 32 to push the register.

Well I sometimes call myself a libertarian but that's only because most people don't know what anarchist means. Most people hear you're an anarchist and they think you're getting ready to throw a bomb at a building.

-- Robert Anton Wilson

Q: What is the sound of one cat napping?

A: Mu.

Consumer debt is the lifeblood of our economy. All modern nation states are built on deficit spending. Debt has come to be the central issue of international politics. But nobody seems to know exactly what it is, or how to think about it.

-- David Graeber

My only love sprung from my only hate!

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

-- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"