You have an unusual understanding of the problems of human relationships.
The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first
half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and
pleasant, the second half still balmy and quite pleasant for those who
hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice
for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time
during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it
but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know.
-- Winning sentence, 1986 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
The government of man by man (under whatever name it be disguised) is oppression.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Protestantism has actually put a man in the position of a country governed by secret police. The spy and eavesdropper, "conscience," watches over every motion of the mind, and all thought and action is for it a "matter of conscience," that is, police business.
-- Max Stirner
A visit to a fresh place will bring strange work.
But though egoism or altruism, separately, each pushed to its extreme, is pernicious to the individual and society, united they are resolved into a third term, which is the law of future societies. This law is solidarity.
-- Jean Grave
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
Slow day. Practice crawling.
Our being is becoming, not stasis. Our science is utopia, our reality is eros, our desire is revolution.
-- Murray Bookchin
Water, taken in moderation cannot hurt anybody.
-- Mark Twain
