I think we need to think of capitalism as a very bad way of organizing communism. Much of what we do is already communism, so just expand it.

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.

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

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.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

When we are able to realize that life is endless and not ephemeral and that life is transformational and not static—then all fears will vanish from our hearts.

Tomorrow is always a better day.

By defining the problem as "hunger, " the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

I've never been no superficial cat.

Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them.

Don't ask for love when you are not capable of giving it.

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

I like frogs. I am not crazy about their legs in a buffet, but I like their casual approach to life.

If you really want something, you've got to keep going after it.