In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
Revolution can never stop.
-- John Cage
You will engage in a profitable business activity.
Q: How do you shoot a blue elephant?
A: With a blue-elephant gun.
Q: How do you shoot a pink elephant?
A: Twist its trunk until it turns blue, then shoot it with
a blue-elephant gun.
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that
procession but carrying a banner.
-- Mark Twain
Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't
understand his own meaning.
-- George D. Prentice
You're at the end of the road again.
Leninism constitutes, without any doubt, a return to the revolutionary spirit of Marxism, but it also constitutes a return to the fallacies and abstractions of Marxist metaphysics.
-- Camillo Berneri
The fact that the modern state is the organizational form of an authority founded upon arbitrariness and violence in the social life of toilers is independent of whether it may be "bourgeois" or "proletarian."
-- Nestor Makhno
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by
ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his
character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler
animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling
complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
You could live a better life, if you had a better mind and a better body.
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
The influence that theoretical anarchists pretend to wield over the revolutionary movement is nil. Today the field is open to action, without weakness or retreat.
-- Emile Henry
Q: How does a hacker fix a function which
doesn't work for all of the elements in its domain?
A: He changes the domain.
There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.
-- Lysander Spooner
Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals.
We must make the world safe for poverty without dependence on government.
-- John Cage
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
-- Johann Most
Never laugh at live dragons.
-- Bilbo Baggins [J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit"]