Q: What's buried in Grant's tomb?
A: A corpse.
Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by rigorous legislation which trespasses on individual liberty.
-- Daniel Guerin
States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power.
-- Noam Chomsky
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
The "government of all the people", if we have to have government, can at best be only the government of the majority.
-- Errico Malatesta
Q: How do you stop an elephant from charging?
A: Take away his credit cards.
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not
original and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson
You have literary talent that you should take pains to develop.
Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on everyone by force: without a police force there is no government.
-- Errico Malatesta