Did the seed of tyranny ever bear good fruit? And can you expect liberty to undo in a moment what oppression has been doing for ages?
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.
-- Johann Most
Gone With The Wind LITE(tm)
-- by Margaret Mitchell
A woman only likes men she can't have and the South gets trashed.
Gift of the Magi LITE(tm)
-- by O. Henry
A husband and wife forget to register their gift preferences.
The Old Man and the Sea LITE(tm)
-- by Ernest Hemingway
An old man goes fishing, but doesn't have much luck.
Awash with unfocused desire, Everett twisted the lobe of his one remaining
ear and felt the presence of somebody else behind him, which caused terror
to push through his nervous system like a flash flood roaring down the
mid-fork of the Feather River before the completion of the Oroville Dam
in 1959.
-- Grand Panjandrum's Special Award, 1984 Bulwer-Lytton
bad fiction contest.
Anarchy's roots go deep: its spouts from the bosom of a rotten society that is falling apart; it is a violent backlash against the established order; it stands for the aspirations to equality and liberty which have entered the lists against the current authoritarianism.
-- Emile Henry
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
-- Oscar Wilde
You may be infinitely smaller than some things, but you're infinitely
larger than others.
In a world that is buckling under the weight of profit making, that is overrun by the destructive sirens of Techno-science and the power hunger of globalization -- that new brand of slavery -- beyond all that, friendship exists, love exists.
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson
In a world that is buckling under the weight of profit making, that is overrun by the destructive sirens of Techno-science and the power hunger of globalization -- that new brand of slavery -- beyond all that, friendship exists, love exists.
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
-- Mark Twain
Our cause cannot expect me to become a nun and the movement will not be turned into a cloister.
-- Emma Goldman
If you learn one useless thing every day, in a single year you'll learn
365 useless things.
I know that I live and that I desire to live.
-- Bruno Filippi
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted;
persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting
to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author
-- Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #13
A: Doc, Happy, Bashful, Dopey, Sneezy, Sleepy, & Grumpy
Q: Who were the Democratic presidential candidates?
I attacked the king because in my opinion he is responsible for all the pale and bleeding victims of the system that he represents and has to defend.
-- Gaetano Bresci
No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large.
-- Mark Twain
The Bolshevik practice of the last ten years shows clearly the counter-revolutionary role of their dictatorship of the Party.
-- Peter Arshinov
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
Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
-- Noam Chomsky