Anarchy quotations

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◆ It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.

- Ursula K. Le Guin99

◆ Electricity is really just organized lighting

- George Carlin99

◆ We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

- Alan Bennett99

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

- Ursula K. Le Guin99

◆ You can do anything you want. You don't believe me. You think, she's out of her head. Yeah, I'm out of my head- on being me. What are you on? On being them. You don't even know. I bet you were never given a chance to know. ....Listen. You can be anything you want to be. Be careful. It's a spell. It's magic. Listen to the words.... You are anything...everyone, anyone. ...You listen to them, teachers, parents, politicians. They're always saying, if you steal you're a thief, if you sleep aroung you're a slut, if you take drugs you're a junkie. They want to get inside your head and control you with their fear. ...Don't play their game. Nothing can touch you; you stay beautiful.

- Melvin Burgess99

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

- G.K. Chesterton99

◆ A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

- George Sterling99

◆ The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

- Eric Schmidt99

◆ The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

- Kate Chopin99

◆ No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

- Emma Goldman99

◆ It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

- Wallace Stegner99

◆ A people must train for centuries to prepare for a single generation of freedom. Against two generations nothing can discipline them.

- Bauvard99

◆ There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

- Kathy Acker99

◆ Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck.

- Jonathan Feldman99

◆ Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

- Edward Abbey99