The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race.

-- Peter Kropotkin

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

-- Bertrand Russell

Eliminating the legal enforcement of DRM -- by criminal, mind, not civil law -- would effectively destroy all business models based on proprietary digital information.

-- Kevin Carson

Q: What's hard going in and soft and sticky coming out?

A: Chewing gum.

Do something right for once: throw off the straitjacket of legislation; wash yourself off, and clean your body, the social body, of all the parasites and vermin that are devouring you. And then -- only then -- will you be able to fully come to life.

-- Albert Libertad

Anarchism seeks to arouse the consciousness of oppression, the desire for a better society, and a sense of the necessity for unceasing warfare against capitalism and the State.

-- Voltairine de Cleyre

Whereas we anarchists desire the extinction of the state through the social revolution and the constitution of an autonomist federal order, the Leninists desire the destruction of the bourgeois state and moreover the conquest of the state by the "proletariat."

-- Camillo Berneri

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

-- George Carlin

Your motives for doing whatever good deed you may have in mind will be

misinterpreted by somebody.

You are capable of planning your future.

Your mode of life will be changed for the better because of new developments.

I don't vote, because I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain.

-- George Carlin

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

You will pass away very quickly.

Things past redress and now with me past care.

-- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"

I think it can be clearly proven that the mental constitution of woman, like that of man, has never failed to rise where restrictions upon equal freedom have been torn down.

-- Voltairine de Cleyre

Your motives for doing whatever good deed you may have in mind will be

misinterpreted by somebody.

You will be misunderstood by everyone.

For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels,

each delved into a hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall

was a gate.

-- J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Return of the King"

[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when

referring to system overview.]

It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.

-- Peter Kropotkin