ThePenciledOne

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal,aims of humanity. -Leo Tolstoy

Dictatorships use their secret police to crush millions under an intolerable burden of lies,injustice and tyranny, and those who still live in democracies have forgotten how to make good use of their liberty. -Thomas Merton

"It is the rare individual in the history of the race who rises even to the level of questioning the right of his master to command and the duty of himself and his fellows to obey."-Robert Wolff

"Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarchist. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe." -John Andrew Holmes

"Washington, D.C. is a city lying in the gutter, wallowing in hypocrisy. It has become a bizarre sinkhole of character assassination and smirking self-righteousness. It will eagerly cast not only the first stone but any other rocks that it can lay it hands on." Wall Street Journal Editorial

I am an anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal. –Rudolf Rocker

Most anarchists are simply self-aware humans who have out grown and abandoned the need for others to tell them what to think and how to live – MentalAnarchy.com

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.-Leo Tolstoy

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness,greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.-Steinbeck

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interestsof the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. - Leo Tolstoy

Show me the government that does not infringe upon anyone's rights and I will no longer call myself an anarchist – Jacob Halbrooks

A heart is a strange instrument.

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