What we mean by equality between the sexes is not just that men will no longer oppress women. We also want men to no longer be oppressed by other men and women no longer to be oppressed by other women.
-- He Zhen
Q: What does it say on the bottom of Coke cans in North Dakota?
A: Open other end.
The state is the most gigantic criminal extant. It manufactures criminals much faster than it punishes them.
-- Benjamin Tucker
The people are conservative: they are satisfied with the society they find. The minority are innovators instead and therefore they rebel.
-- Bruno Filippi
Q: What's the difference between Bell Labs and the Boy Scouts of America?
A: The Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of
24 hours.
-- Mark Twain, on New England weather
Cheer Up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.
You have an ambitious nature and may make a name for yourself.
You too can wear a nose mitten.
October 12, the Discovery.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss
it.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
Q: What's buried in Grant's tomb?
A: A corpse.
For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels,
each delved into a hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall
was a gate.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Return of the King"
[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to system overview.]
Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at
fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take
the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will
find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil,
you will say that she did it with her teeth.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
The task of the conscious minority is to profit from every situation to change the environment in a way that will make possible the education of the whole people.
-- Errico Malatesta
Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience.
-- Max Stirner
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
-- Max Stirner
In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and
struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny
and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the
crunch he was all courage. Those novels would make you retch.
-- Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, on the generic Canadian
novel.
You will have long and healthy life.
If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion.
-- Alexander Berkman
The work of the anarchist is above all a work of critique. The anarchist goes, sowing revolt against that which oppresses, obstructs, opposes itself to the free expansion of the individual being.
-- Emile Armand