Q: How do you stop an elephant from charging?

A: Take away his credit cards.

Those that envision the goal from the first steps, those that want the certitude of reaching it before walking never arrive.

-- Albert Libertad

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

-- Emma Goldman

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

-- Peter Kropotkin

Socialism and communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal anarchism.

-- Voltairine de Cleyre

Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.

-- Lucy Parsons

Most anarchists believe the coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.

-- Lucy Parsons

You will overcome the attacks of jealous associates.

The state is nothing but this domination and this exploitation, well regulated and systematised.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

What I tell you three times is true.

-- Lewis Carroll

Someone is speaking well of you.

How unusual!

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

-- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"

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

-- Peter Kropotkin

Courage is your greatest present need.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

-- Emma Goldman

Q: How does the Polish Constitution differ from the American?

A: Under the Polish Constitution citizens are guaranteed freedom of

speech, but under the United States constitution they are

guaranteed freedom after speech.

-- being told in Poland, 1987

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

-- Mark Twain

The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply lack cognitive meaning.

-- Noam Chomsky

This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget it.

I had been told that society's institutions were founded on justice and equality, and all around me I could see nothing but lies and treachery.

-- Emile Henry