We have said and we shall not stop repeating it: no intermediaries, no agents and obedient servants who always end by becoming the real masters!

-- Carlo Cafiero

I do not want to unite with the multitude of those who flatter the proletariat, excusing them, praising them, adorning them with wreathes.

-- Bruno Filippi

For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel. And if one can

neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?

-- Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse"

[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when

referring to powerfail recovery.]

No one today likes truth: utility and self interest have long ago been substituted for truth.

-- Nikolai Berdyaev

Freedom must be so extensive that it includes the right not to be free.

-- Max Nettlau

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

-- Daniel Guerin

An exotic journey in downtown Newark is in your future.

Miss Goldman is a communist; I am an individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property, I wish to assert it.

-- Voltairine de Cleyre

For a long time I have been fascinated by the thought how wonderful it would be if at last, in public opinion on the succession of political and social institutions, the fateful term "one after another" would be replaced through the very simple and self-evident "simultaneously."

-- Max Nettlau

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

-- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"

True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force -- necessity.

-- Emma Goldman

Without ecology, society cannot exist, and without humanity and nature, ecology cannot exist.

-- Janet Biehl

You prefer the company of the opposite sex, but are well liked by your own.

I think it can be clearly proven that the mental constitution of woman, like that of man, has never failed to rise where restrictions upon equal freedom have been torn down.

-- Voltairine de Cleyre

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must

have somebody to divide it with.

-- Mark Twain

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

-- Oscar Wilde

Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away. They're privileges. That's all we've ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges.

-- George Carlin

As you have undertaken to destroy these races, not inferior, but merely latecomer, you tend in like manner to destroy the working class, which you also qualify as inferior.

-- Jean Grave

Nine-tenths of the activities of modern government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

-- Bertrand Russell

Something's rotten in the state of Denmark.

-- Shakespeare