You will step on the night soil of many countries.

The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of

the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarian tribe now stacking wood at

her nubile feet, when the strong clear voice of the poetic and heroic

Handsomas roared, 'Flick your Bic, crisp that chick, and you'll feel my

steel through your last meal!'

-- Winning sentence, 1984 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

A fist full of might goes farther than a bag full of rights.

-- Max Stirner

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled utopian.

-- Emma Goldman

You will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize... posthumously.

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

to do.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

-- Frederick Douglass

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.

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

You attempt things that you do not even plan because of your extreme stupidity.

Wheresoever it be, there will exist the power of certain men over others, and there will not be freedom, but there will be the oppression of one portion of mankind by another. Therefore power must be abolished.

-- Leo Tolstoy

It is society that makes criminals and you, jury members, instead of striking you should use your intelligence and your strength to transform society. In one fell swoop you'll suppress all crime. And your work, in attacking causes, will be greater and more fruitful than your justice, which belittles itself in punishing its effects.

-- Ravachol

So that is why anarchists keep coming back to the question of what anarchism is. Because anarchism is not a political movement. Or rather it is, but only in a minor aspect.

-- Alfredo Bonanno

Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you.

In America, the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

-- Oscar Wilde

Hanged in Chicago, beheaded in Germany, garroted in Jerez, shot in Barcelona, guillotined in Montbrison and in Paris, our dead are many; but you have not been able to destroy anarchy.

-- Emile Henry

Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator.

Private capitalism, condemned by history, only survives today thanks to the arms race on the one hand, and the comparative failure of state communism on the other.

-- Daniel Guerin

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

-- Emma Goldman

You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny.