Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live communism and anarchism in a million forms everyday.

Love is ecstasy of life

Create each day anew.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

The sugar industry doesn't want to see more of the agricultural areas turned into storm-water treatment areas. Ultimately they want to develop that land for houses and a shopping center.

I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.

In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.

The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.

If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.