States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

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.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen.

Sorrow's a tall mountain you climb one inch at a time. You ain't supposed to do it quick

A writer's journey may be tough, but never give up and enjoy every moment.

The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.

Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.