The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say "watch me".

This isn't your fight, Patch, " I said qu

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

I saw...a kid on a leash. You seen these people? Kid on a leash? How horrible. Put him in the pound where he belongs.

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

Every day I get more and more honest.

I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.