Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.
The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.
We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live.
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.
Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is this power reduced to a science. Governments never lead; they follow progress. When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.
Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.
Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold.
So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.
The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.
Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
Do actions agree with words? There’s your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.
Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.
A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.
If some musicians put half as much effort in to the business side as they do their outer look and appearances, they could be twice as far.
The people who blame everything and every body else for their lack of success, tended to continue to have a lack of success. Your Proactive, problem solving minded, assertive and responsible approach is going to carry you much further than whining, blaming, pointing fingers and justifying your failures.
For your own professionalism, reputation & appearance, it really is ok to NOT post every #video, picture, event or show on social media. On the contrary, holding back, waiting or not posting certain things all together can help much more than hurt.
Are you considering the other person you’re calling when you call? Do you ask if it is a good time? If not, why not?
Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.
The more you engage and connect, the more engagement and connections you will have.
The Cream Does NOT Always Rise To The Top! There is a serious misconception, misconnection and mistake in this idea of thinking.
Your mistakes aren’t learning experiences … if you aren’t learning from them.
Try not to sound like those singer-songwriters that go on and on with ten-minute, barely intelligible stories that everyone endures until the next song starts.
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.
The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren’t is to learn inequality in little ways all day long.
What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women.
Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.
With faith the size of a mustard seed, you can indeed move a mountain, but you can hardly be expected to garnish your sandwich.
I hate fake people. You know what I’m talking about. Mannequins.
Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire.
I want to end global hunger by feeding half the world’s starving people to the other half.
Dance like there’s nobody watching. Or filming. Never mind that creepy guy in the corner with the camcorder. Just keep dancing.
Love is the best gift because it’s free to give and priceless to receive.
One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.
When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.
Sometimes I ask myself, “Do I have the courage to do the right thing when it matters most?” And that answer, I’m afraid, is silence.
At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one an nothing can alter that.
Be like a flower. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air, and the light.
It does not matter how long spend on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.
Yoga is the artwork of awareness on the canvass of body, mind, and soul.
Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, pure intention raises the heart to the supreme power.
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the sun.
Yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga, you can write your poetry of movements.
In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty, and that is the way new leaves grow.
Discover your deep inner-self, and from that place spread love in every direction.
When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.
Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.
You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.
Above the policies, above the law, above the government, above the constitution, there is a higher principle, that is the principle of individual integrity, without which no matter how much policies and laws we create, we cannot ensure health, safety and sanity in the society.
Helping those in need is not charity, it’s humanity.
Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present.
It’s more important to be kind than right.
There are two kinds of people in the world – first those who run away from danger, then there are those who run towards danger, to see if someone needs help.
Nature doesn’t belong to us, we belong to nature.
The only thing that stands between dreams and reality is persistence.
The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude.
Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage.
Justice and humanity are not different, they are one and the same thing – where there is justice, there is humanity – where there is no humanity, there is no justice.
She longed to hide beneath every drop of water in the sea.
If I were reincarnated, I wouldn’t mind coming back as an undiscovered seahorse.
What we do is what means the most.
We all have to share this world. The best way to do that is to be nice to each other.
No matter how many times I had been challenged with having to explain the worst aspects of life, it never got easier.
In life, wisdom usually came with age, but death offered another world.
My schedule became tighter than a corset on a Victorian prostitute.
As a dyslexic with rapid thought, my hands often fly over the page way too fast, and my typing isn’t much better.
The past always has a way of repeating itself, but thankfully it’s never exactly the same.
Sharing my love of stories has led me to find more acceptance and insight than any classroom learning I ever received, but without those technical skills, I would not have been able to do it all.
Once you have learned to ask questions – relevant and appropriate and substantial questions – you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.
Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose..
It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.
Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.
