Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is not the freedom to be wrong.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

I always like to know what I'm doing, but there are times when nobody will tell me.

If you aim to be big, you will be big. And that's not a pun about my size.

There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.

For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.

When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.