You'll wish that you had done some of the hard things when they were easier

to do.

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

-- Mark Twain

If today we fall without compromising, we can be sure of victory tomorrow.

-- Errico Malatesta

We are neither for a majority nor for a minority government; neither for democracy not for dictatorship. We are for the abolition of the gendarme. We are for the freedom of all and for free agreement, which will be there for all when no one has the means to force others, and all are involved in the good running of society. We are for anarchy.

-- Errico Malatesta

Executive ability is prominent in your make-up.

You will be married within a year, and divorced within two.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

-- Lord Acton

The Ottoman Empire was an ugly affair, but they had the right idea. The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much -- were mostly interested in robbing them -- and they left them alone to run their own affairs, and their own regions and their own communities with a lot of local self determination.

-- Noam Chomsky

No one should ever work... In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.

-- Bob Black

It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist.

-- Peter Kropotkin

The countdown had stalled at 'T' minus 69 seconds when Desiree, the first

female ape to go up in space, winked at me slyly and pouted her thick,

rubbery lips unmistakably -- the first of many such advances during what

would prove to be the longest, and most memorable, space voyage of my

career.

-- Winning sentence, 1985 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

Q: What do you call the money you pay to the government when

you ride into the country on the back of an elephant?

A: A howdah duty.

You will pioneer the first Martian colony.

A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation.

-- Peter Kropotkin

I desire neither to rule nor to be ruled.

-- Otanes

There is no need to think in terms of destroying everything in the belief that things will look after themselves.

-- Errico Malatesta

You teach best what you most need to learn.

In certain intellectual circles in France, the very basis for discussion -- minimal respect for facts and logic -- has been virtually abandoned.

-- Noam Chomsky

To be looked upon as a mere part, part of society, the individual cannot bear -- because he is more; his uniqueness puts from it this limited conception.

-- Max Stirner

We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.

-- Lucy Parsons