Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

Power never takes a back step -- only in the face of more power.

-- Malcolm X

"You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive."

-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Study in Scarlet"

Q: What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous?

A: A canary with the super-user password.

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

-- Lysander Spooner

We must not only act politically, but in our politics act religiously, religiously in the sense of freedom, of which the one true expression is justice and love.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

That secret you've been guarding, isn't.

Your heart is pure, and your mind clear, and your soul devout.

You tread upon my patience.

-- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"

Whoever denies authority and fights against it is an anarchist.

-- Sebastien Faure

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has

shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the Old

Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred

thousand miles long ... seven hundred and forty-two years from now the

Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. ... There is

something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of

conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

-- Mark Twain

The concept of the "majority" is particularly troubling. By always accepting the will of the majority, democracy allows for majorities to have an absolute tyranny over everyone else.

-- Moxie Marlinspike

Anarchists no more want to be masters than they want to be servants -- they no more want to exercise violence than to submit to it. They expose, they propose, but they do not impose.

-- Emile Armand

I had been told that society's institutions were founded on justice and equality, and all around me I could see nothing but lies and treachery.

-- Emile Henry

Drawn at first to socialism, I was not slow in separating myself from that party. I have too much love of freedom, too much respect for individual initiative, too much repugnance for military organization, to assume a number in the ordered army of the fourth estate.

-- Emile Henry

"... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often

picturesque liar."

-- Mark Twain

We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are. Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality.

-- Nikolai Berdyaev

If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled about it, afraid, or ashamed. This is the time to boldly say, "Yes, I believe in the displacement of this system of injustice by a just one; I believe in the end of starvation, exposure, and the crimes caused by them."

-- Voltairine de Cleyre

If the federal government had access to every email you've ever written and every phone call you've ever made, it's almost certain that they could find something you've done which violates a provision in the 27,000 pages of federal statues or 10,000 administrative regulations. You probably do have something to hide, you just don't know it yet.

-- Moxie Marlinspike

In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

-- Leo Tolstoy