What we're already doing is communism. The first step we have to make is to realize that we're already closer to it than we think.

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.

When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

You got a harem of seventy girls you don't get to know any of them very well.

If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.

A true Grandmaster is a person who starts the arts at a very young age and continues it until their body will no longer allows it. Then they still contribute mentally to the art.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.

One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.