Only the shallow know themselves.
-- Oscar Wilde
You need no longer worry about the future. This time tomorrow you'll be dead.
You look like a million dollars. All green and wrinkled.
Your mode of life will be changed for the better because of new developments.
Q: What's the difference between a duck and an elephant?
A: You can't get down off an elephant.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain
Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.
-- Henry David Thoreau
The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
-- Malcolm X
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time. So long
as there is a regular progression of stimuli to get your mental hooks
into, there is room for lateral movement. Once this begins, its rate is
a matter of discretion.
-- Corwin, Prince of Amber
What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.
-- David Graeber
The idea of dominating nature has a history that is almost as old as that of hierarchy itself.
-- Murray Bookchin
Instead of taking aim at some vague enemy, it's better wait a moment for him to turn into a friend.
-- Georges Brassens
"God" -- as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.
-- Johann Most
The world does not belong to us. If it has a master who is stupid enough to want it the way it is, let him have it.
-- Alfredo Bonanno
The world does not belong to us. If it has a master who is stupid enough to want it the way it is, let him have it.
-- Alfredo Bonanno
As set forth by theologians, the idea of "God" is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
-- Johann Most
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of
absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness
within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.
Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and
doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone
of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
-- Shirley Jackson, "The Haunting of Hill House"
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
Beware of low-flying butterflies.