In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live the life of a savage. I must be free, even of governments.
-- Gustave Courbet
Socialism and communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal anarchism.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
-- Alan Moore
The legitimate, the equitable compensation for the loan of money, is the cost of labor in lending it and receiving it back again.
-- Josiah Warren
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
Domestic happiness and faithful friends.
Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
Q: How does the Polish Constitution differ from the American?
A: Under the Polish Constitution citizens are guaranteed freedom of
speech, but under the United States constitution they are
guaranteed freedom after speech.
-- being told in Poland, 1987
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
-- Mark Twain
"... all the modern inconveniences ..."
-- Mark Twain