Avoid reality at all costs.
So so is good, very good, very excellent good:
and yet it is not; it is but so so.
-- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
Instead of inanely repeating the old formula, "Respect the law," we say, "Despise law and all its attributes!"
-- Peter Kropotkin
Live in a world of your own, but always welcome visitors.
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
-- Bertrand Russell
For those who stubbornly seek freedom around the world, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination.
-- Noam Chomsky
Anarchy will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power.
-- Leo Tolstoy
Break into jail and claim police brutality.
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt
of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He
brought death into the world.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
I think my basic viewpoint is that everything the left and right say about each other is true. And the reason it's true is because they have so much in common.
-- Bob Black