“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”— H. L. Mencken, amazon.com
“Smashing up McDonald's or Starbuck's is pointless. Not that I give a damn about McDonald's or Starbuck's. I don't care whether anyone smashes them up or not. But that is not a revolutionary activity. Even if every fast-food chain in the world were wiped out the techno-industrial system would suffer…”— Ted Kaczynski, theanarchistlibrary.org
“The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power. Through the ages the constantly expanding grasp of government has been liberty's greatest threat.”— Douglas Macarthur, amazon.com
“Puritanism celebrated its reign of terror in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, destroying and crushing every manifestation of art and culture. It was the spirit of Puritanism which robbed Shelley of his children, because he would not bow to the dicta of religion. It was the sam…”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute…”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals f…”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has…”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals….”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“We are not the kind of people who, when the word ‘anarchism’ is mentioned, turn away contemptuously and say with a supercilious wave of the hand: ‘Why waste time on that, it's not worth talking about!’ We think that such cheap ‘criticism’ is undignified and useless. Nor are we the kind of people who…”— Joseph Stalin, marxists.org
“Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“If you think communism threatens your individuality, it’s because your individuality is so commodified under capitalism you literally can’t envision constructing an identity around anything but participation in capitalism (material possessions, purchases, property, etc.).”— anarchyisfunandfree, 122mg.tumblr.com
“Already, Trump is causing Obama to go down in popular memory as a far-left progressive and not a centrist who deported millions and killed hundreds of thousands in wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and elsewhere. Sure, Trump is worse than Obama in a lot of ways, but the whole point is that we…”— Peter Gelderloos, theanarchistlibrary.org