The leather community is largely anarchistic and shares a healthy distrust of power and arrogance.

Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here’s one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the...

Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being...

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden...

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.

One of the few things my father says when he’s had a few that I agree with is that kids don’t have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the...

For anyone who thinks “profit” is evil, I have a challenge for you: try NOT to get any profit in the next week. Profit simply means increasing how much valuable stuff you have, and if...

But democrats are seldom welcome on planets run by totalitarian governments, and scarcely more welcome on planets where anarchy prevails–this is due to the very nature of democracy, the only practical compromise between totalitarianism and...

If you can see a cop in your rear view mirror – no matter how far back the cop is – TURN! The sooner you turn the better. Your goal while driving should be to...

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

The flaw in being civilized is that it permit’s the uncivilized among us to perpetrate horrific crimes against us in the name of freedom and equality.Foreword ‘RHG

Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core conflict between individuals and those who would seek power and...

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people,...

Eve: All this riot and uproar, V… is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please? V: No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means “without leaders”, not “without order”. With anarchy comes...

After simmering years of censorship and repression, the masses finally throng the streets. The chants echoing off the walls to build to a roar from all directions, stoking the courage of the crowds as they...

Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

The Palestinians are now in a heightened state of instability, of genuine chaos bordering on anarchy and incipient disintegration. They’re not in a position to exploit the room for maneuver that Sharon’s demise theoretically provides...

In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land (“the public domain”),...

If I ever form a clan, we’ll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.

William: “I’m sure we can all pull together, sir.”Vetinari: “Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary,...

Love?’ Echo was right. All destruction started from love, didn’t it?

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn’t always become common.

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we...

I was waiting for you,” said Gregory. “Might I have a moment’s conversation?””Certainly. About what?” asked Syme in a sort of weak wonder.Gregory struck out with his stick at the lamp-post, and then at the...

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

The overwhelming tendency of markets is to bring people together, break down prejudices, persuade people of the need to cooperate regardless of class, race, religion, sex/gender, and physical ability. The same is obviously and especially...

To know another person is to Know How to live and work with her. To know another person in a moral sense is to Know How to respect her… Respect must show in action.

… if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us. Those who do not rise to the minimal moral level of...

You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think ‘how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?’.It’s incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was...

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

Anarchy is a form of crime … We will search the perpetrators, detain them and bring them to trial.

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with...

The disdain of profit is due to ignorance, and to an attitude that we may if we wish admire in the ascetic who has chosen to be content with a small share of the riches...

Oh, most unhappy man,’ he cried, ‘try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.’My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,’ said Gregory.

Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man....

No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a...

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

What makes anyone think that government officials are even trying to protect us? A government is not analogous to a hired security guard. Governments do not come into existence as social service organizations or as...