"The nature of a species can be changed completely as a result of the modifications resulting from the passage through a series of environments."
"We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves."
"Bakunin was unquestionably inferior to Marx as a political economist. His economics are Marxist, and he subscribed enthusiastically to Marx's theory of surplus value and dissection of the capitalist system."
"Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place, some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place."
"True organisation like true liberty belongs to the future -- and the Socialist Commonwealth, or, as I have termed it elsewhere, the Anarchist Republic."
"Socialists, so called, have degraded Marx's declaration of a political class struggle to mean something which it never did and never can mean, namely, parliamentary action."
"You can win the rat race but you're still a rat."
"Man as we know him, in the highest actual stage of development, loves learning, yearns alter truth, and identifies his personal happiness with the realization and maintenance of his ideals."
"The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to ever committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure."
"Out of the class or property social system there cannot emerge a "representation" which signifies an honest attempt to secure just exposition of principles and expressions of antagonistic interests."
"People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot."
"The art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires."
"The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows."
"The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others."
"The anti-sexualism of authoritarian societies and the people who run them does not spring from conviction (they themselves have sex), but from the vague perception that freedom here might lead to a liking for freedom elsewhere."
"Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember."
"Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes."
"The state is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently."
"Anarchists have a 'bad name' in the media, not because they can point to one indiscriminate massacre by anarchists--there have been none--but because the one thing holders of power fear is that they personally should be held responsible for their own actions"
"Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade."
"I dislike communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation."
"I can't see coherent political structures in the traditional sense lasting beyond the next twenty years, I don't think that would be possible."
"Fascism becomes less and less possible. We have to accept that we are moving towards some sort of anarchy."
"Things tend to organise themselves. If there is any message from contemporary science, it is surely that."
"Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust."
"Capitalism and communism felt like they were always going to be around, but it turns out they were just two ways of ordering an industrial society. If you were looking for more fundamental human political poles, you'd take anarchy and fascism, for my money."
"Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility."
"I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment."
"The true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking."
"If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind."
"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate."
"No one wants a boss, to be a boss, to work under a boss. The people you like working with are the people you respect as individuals."
"Admittedly, I do have several bones - whole war fields full of bones, in fact - to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe."
"There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money."
"Conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting... the truth is more frightening, nobody is in control. The world is rudderless."
"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is not by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself."
"People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."
"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
"Nine-tenths of the activities of modern government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better."
"Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species."
"Class is massively underrepresented in literature. Most books are written for the middle class, and generally they only have two modes of talking about the working class. The first is a kind of lofty contempt at the vulgarity, the stupidity of those people. The second is a kind of patronizing concern, which paints the working class as nothing but victims."
"Patriotism: a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
"Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition. It has imposed a middle management, not only in our politics and in our finances, but in our spirituality as well."
"We need genuine democracy, the definition of which is "the people shall rule.""
