No one is safe from nature’s savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.

We don’t need unity in theory, we need solidarity in practice.

Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding ‘rights’, ‘justice’, ‘equal rights’, they are just acting under the pressure of their own lack...

Just following orders’ is no excuse unless you’re in the bedroom.

Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.

Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on “society’s” jailing the criminal; the emphasis would necessarily be on compelling the criminal to...

I’m not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers. I’m scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be “authority”, and so do their bidding, and pay for...

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.

la propriété, c’est le vol!

A mother is an individual who’d go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That’s the most horrifying individual you’ll ever meet.

Historically, the ‘deadline’ was the line around a prison beyond which prisoners were eligible for shooting. In keeping with shifts in the exercise of control, what one was delineated spatially over life is now enforced...

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

The word in your mouth is anarchy.

People are more willing to support the exercise of authority over themselves when they believe it to be an objective, neutral feature of the natural world. This was the idea behind the concept of the...

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

tribute.” Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of...

Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has for a long time been no guarantee of their security. Just as the...

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate’er it touches, and obedience,Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,A mechanised automaton.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

Traditional hedonism…was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent...

I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in...

A general is a specialist insofar as he has master his craft. Beyond that and outside the arbitrary pro and con, he keeps a third possibility intact and in reserve: his own substance. He knows...

all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong...

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don’t let them take you ALIVE.

A preoccupation with power – black power, student power, flower power, poor power, ‘the power structure’ – is the striking aspect of the American political scene at the moment. Oddly enough, obsession with power goes...

Whom one is speaking to – or which aspect of their character – fundamentally determines the meaning and consequences of an exhortation. ‘Indulge Your Desires’ comes across very differently on a billboard advertising SUVs than...

The voices of actual communities are alive in a way no theory could every be even if, for now, it takes the form of tiny acts of resistance. Who doesn’t cheat on taxes, avoid cops,...

Jelly beans! Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and raspberry and mint and round and smooth and crunchy outside and soft-mealy inside and sugary and bouncing jouncing tumbling...

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

We revolutionary anarchists are the enemies of all forms of State and State organisations … wethink that all State rule, all governments being by their very nature placed outside the mass of thepeople, must necessarily...

If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the...

Gee, I’d like to go visit Fred, but I can’t because there isn’t a flat thing outside for me to drive on, and I don’t know how to build it and the other 300 million...

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as “armed teens”?

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst...

When politics and home life have become one and the same, when economic problems have been solved in such a way that individual and collective interests are identical – all constraints having disappeared – it...

You’ll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you.

Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such.

The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness.

The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.

Ever reviled, accursed, ne’er understood,Thou art the grisly terror of our age.”Wreck of all order,” cry the multitude,”Art thou, & war & murder’s endless rage.”0, let them cry. To them that ne’er have strivenThe ‘truth...

Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that...

Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the...

the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it’s definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself; the latent external crisis enables it to...