One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has

only nine lives.

-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

Is it not plain that all these governments are systematic poisoners, interested stupefiers of the masses?

-- Mikhail Bakunin

Anarchism was born in a moral revolt against social injustice.

-- Errico Malatesta

Q: Why did the lone ranger kill Tonto?

A: He found out what "kimosabe" really means.

Usually, when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

-- Malcolm X

Are you making all this up as you go along?

You are as I am with You.

I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New

England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be

raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in

New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for

countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere

if they don't get it.

-- Mark Twain

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition. It has imposed a middle management, not only in our politics and in our finances, but in our spirituality as well.

-- Alan Moore

Next Friday will not be your lucky day. As a matter of fact, you don't

have a lucky day this year.

Others invent more or less complicated system of mutuality. But in the long run it is always the searching for a more secure guarantee of freedom which is the common factor among anarchists, and which divides them into different schools.

-- Errico Malatesta

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is not by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

-- William Godwin

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a governmentent. The government itself never acknowledges this right.

-- Lysander Spooner

Q: What's the difference between USL and the Titanic?

A: The Titanic had a band.

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?

A: He was giving it last rites.

Q: Are we not men?

A: We are Vaxen.

He who refuses to submit is at once labelled "queer," "different," and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life.

-- Emma Goldman

One courageous act has sufficed to upset in a few days the entire governmental machinery, to make the colossus tremble.

-- Peter Kropotkin