The world does not need governing; in fact it should not be governed.

-- Zhuangzi

Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.

-- Mark Twain

Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose, and when they deal with others who are equally free.

-- David Graeber

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

-- Johann Most

Q: What's tan and black and looks great on a lawyer?

A: A doberman.

You have a deep appreciation of the arts and music.

Most anarchists are, frankly, incapable of living in an autonomous cooperative manner. A lot of them aren't very bright. They tend to peruse their own classics and insider literature to the exclusion of broader knowledge of the world we live in.

-- Bob Black

You need more time; and you probably always will.

I do not want to unite with the multitude of those who flatter the proletariat, excusing them, praising them, adorning them with wreathes.

-- Bruno Filippi

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man

who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that

there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

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

From the outset of the industrial revolution, what is nostalgically called "laissez-faire" was in fact a system of continuing state intervention to subsidize accumulation, guarantee privilege, and maintain work discipline.

-- Kevin Carson

Without ecology, society cannot exist, and without humanity and nature, ecology cannot exist.

-- Janet Biehl

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Q: What's a WASP's idea of open-mindedness?

A: Dating a Canadian.

There are more things in heaven and earth,

Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

-- Wm. Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

You who are resigned, look: I spit on your idols. I spit on God, the Fatherland, I spit on Christ, I spit on the flag, I spit on capital and the golden calf; I spit on laws and Codes, on the symbols of religion; they are baubles, I could care less about them, I laugh at them...

-- Albert Libertad

"You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?"

"The famous scientific criminal, as famous among crooks as --"

"My blushes, Watson," Holmes murmured, in a deprecating voice.

"I was about to say 'as he is unknown to the public.'"

-- A. Conan Doyle, "The Valley of Fear"

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

Overcoming the problem of voluntary servitude, which has proved such a hindrance to radical political projects in the past, implies this sort of ethical questioning of the self, an interrogation of one's subjective involvement and complicity with power.

-- Saul Newman

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

-- Mark Twain