When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it doesn't become the market in the way we see it now.

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 would like to be with you, but I do love my loneliness too.

Writing a full length novel is very much like driving a car with snakes in your pants—you just never know what’s going to happen. -- James Scott Bell

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.

Double gold means I'm king of the sprints. It shows I'm the best sprinter around.