Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we

are not the person involved.

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

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing.

-- Oscar Wilde

Those who produce everything have nothing, and those who produce nothing have everything. Such a state of affairs can only produce antagonism between the laboring class and the owning, i.e., do-nothing, class. The fight breaks out and hatred delivers its blows.

-- Marius Jacob

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind.

-- Peter Kropotkin

Always and everywhere among us, practical problems have been resolved by a majority of votes.

-- Peter Arshinov

The time is right to make new friends.

What economists call over-production is but a production that is above the purchasing power of the worker, who is reduced to poverty by capital and state.

-- Peter Kropotkin

Everyone complains about politicians. Everyone says they suck. But where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky; they don't pass through a membrane from a separate reality. They come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, and American businesses. And they're elected by American voters. This is what our system produces, folks. This is the best we can do.

-- George Carlin

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Anarchism does not depend on theory or programs, which try to grasp man's life in its entirety. It is a teaching, which is based on real life, which outgrows all artificial limitations, which cannot be constricted by any system.

-- Nestor Makhno

Obviously, the revolution will produce many misfortunes, many sufferings; but if it produced one hundred times more of them, it would still be a blessing relative to what one endures today.

-- Errico Malatesta

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

-- Noam Chomsky

A is for Apple.

-- Hester Pryne

Cybernetics is going to drive the whole world to decentralization which is what the anarchists have always urged. -- Robert Anton Wilson

-- Robert Anton Wilson

... A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he

was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

-- Mark Twain

You will wish you hadn't.

Q: What is printed on the bottom of beer bottles in Minnesota?

A: Open other end.

One can lose one's illusions about everything and about everyone, but not about what one affirms with one's moral conscience.

-- Camillo Berneri

Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals.

To monotonously live the mouldy hours of the ordinary people, the submissive, the accommodated, a life of convenience, is not living, it is only vegetating and carrying around an amorphous mass of flesh and bones. To life one should give the exquisite elevation of the rebellion of the arms and the mind.

-- Severino Di Giovanni