A philosopher is dead when he is no longer read. Some, then, know the strange fortune of death while still alive.
-- Michel Onfray
When private property is abolished there will be no necessity for crime, no demand for it; it will cease to exist.
-- Oscar Wilde
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
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more
deadly in the long run.
-- Mark Twain
If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.
-- Errico Malatesta
Q: What do you have when you have a lawyer buried up to his neck in sand?
A: Not enough sand.
Courage is your greatest present need.
Once you drain the vitality from people at work, they'll likely submit to heirarchy and expertise in everything. They're used to it.
-- Bob Black
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we
are not the person involved.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"