Read "The Truth" blog entry. In short though, I'm an atheist and an anarchist. I'm a fairly nice guy, but I'm also kind of a dick. The rest you may come to know in time. Oh, and my favorite time is 4:20.
Favorite Quotes:
What great benefit to those in power that people do not think. - Hitler.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. - D'Israeli
Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. - Benjamin Franklin
Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism - Howard Zinn
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way aganst holders of power... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton
Liberty is not the Power of Doing What We Like, but the Right of being Able to do What We Ought - Lord Acton
Liberty is the Prevention of Control By Others. this Requires Self-Control - Lord Acton
The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Men to do Nothing - Edmund Burke
Unthinking Respect for Authority is the Greatest Enemy of Truth - Albert Einstein
You can't Solve a Problem with the Thinking that Created the Problem - Albert Einstein
Force Always Attracts Men of Low Morality - Albert Einstein
Question everything - Albert Einstein
The ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. - Albert Einstein
As soon as I took possession of my consciousness I gave myself over to theft without any scruples. I have no part in your so-called morality that advocates the respect of property as a virtue when in reality there are no worse thieves than landlords. - Marius Jacob
When a Politician Wrestles with His Conscience, He Usually Wins - Joe Sobran
The Aim of the People is More Honest than that of Nobility - Machiavelli
One of the Penalties for Refusing to Participate in Politics is that You End Up being Governed By your Inferiors - Plato
A State of War Only Serves as an Excuse for Domestic Tyranny - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A Man who Stands for Nothing Will Fall for Anything - Malcolm X
When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that she will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a person saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath she is going to tell you what she won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A person who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire...or preserve his freedom. - Malcolm X
Suppose You were an Idiot. and Suppose You were a Member of Congress. but I Repeat Myself. - Mark Twain
My Kind of Loyalty was to One's Country, not to Its Institutions or Its Officeholders - Mark Twain
That We are to Stand By the President, Right or Wrong, is not Only Unpatriotic and Servile, but is Morally Treasonable to the American Public - Theodore Roosevelt
With Republicans in Power, Man Exploits Man. with Democrats, Just the Opposite. - Richard B. Boddie
Remember that a Government Big Enough to Give You Everything You Want is Also Big Enough to Take Away Everything You have - Davy Crockett
It is Dangerous to be Right When the Government is Wrong - Voltaire
Those who can Make You Believe Absurdities can Make You Commit Atrocities - Voltaire
All Murderers are Punished, Unless They Kill in Large Numbers and to the Sound of Trumpets - Voltaire
Emergencies have Always been the Pretext on which the Safeguards of Individual Liberty have been Eroded - Friedrich Hayek
If we do not revolt, we are either morally insensitive or criminally selfish. - Herbert Read
I Believe in Only One Thing: Liberty; but I do not Believe in Liberty Enough to Want to Force it Upon Anyone - H. L. Mencken
A Man Cannot Ride your Back Unless it is Bent - Martin Luther King Jr
We have Guided Missiles and Misguided Men - Martin Luther King Jr
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. - Martin Luther King, Jr
The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr
A Patriot Must Always be Ready to Defend His Country Against His Government - Edward Abbey
Those who Cannot Remember the Past are Condemned to Repeat it - George Santayana
Fighting for Freedom is a Losing Battle. Taking Liberties is What Real Americans do. - Penn Jillette
As Scarce as the Truth is, the Supply has Always been in Excess of the Demand - Josh Billings
There is no God higher than truth. - Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Gandhi
Fear always springs from ignorance - Emerson
Suicidal is this distrust of reason - Emerson
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. - Emma Goldman
Man's true liberation, individual and collective, lies in the emancipation from authority and from the belief in it. - Emma Goldman
What role did authority or government play in human endeavor for betterment, in invention and discovery? None whatever, or at least none that was helpful. It has always been the individual that has accomplished every miracle in that sphere, usually in spite of the prohibition, persecution and interference by authority, human and divine. - Emma Goldman
All progress has been essentially an unmasking of "divinity" and "mystery," of alleged sacred, eternal "truth"; it has been a gradual elimination of the abstract and the substitution in its place of the real, the concrete. In short, of facts against fancy, of knowledge against ignorance, of light against darkness. That slow and arduous liberation of the individual was not accomplished by the aid of the state. On the contrary, it was by continuous conflict, by life and death struggle with the state, that even the smallest vestige of independence and freedom has been won. It has cost mankind much time and blood to secure what little it has gained so far from kings, tsars and governments. - Emma Goldman
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. - Thoreau
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy
A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. - Abbie Hoffman
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. - Mikhail Bakunin
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. - Mikhail Bakunin
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell, 1984
In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary. - George Orwell, 1984
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. - I. F. Stone
If you have come here to help me, then you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. - Lila Watson
It will be considered the greatest crime for some to own more than they can use in a dozen lifetimes, while their neighbors have not enough bread for their children. -Alexander Berkman
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always. — Errico Malatesta
It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute. - Buenaventura Durruti
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. - Karl Marx
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. - Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John Kennedy
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. - Abraham Lincoln
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. - Dwight Eisenhower
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. - Thomas Jefferson
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. - John Kennedy
One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson
Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin
The Proletarian who is conscious of this task (overthrowal of capitalism) is a slave who has revolted against slavery. The Proletarian who is not conscious of the idea, is a slave who does not realize his position as a slave; at best he is a slave who fights to improve his conditions as a slave, but not one who fights to overthrow slavery. – Lenin
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Goethe
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. - Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the only true place for a just man is also a prison - Thoreau
When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions! - Peter Kropotkin
While preaching against every kind of government and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom because we are convinced that one learns through struggle, and when one begins to enjoy a little freedom one ends by wanting it all. We must always be with the people, and if we do not succeed in getting them to demand a lot we will seek to get them to want something and we must make every effort to get them to understand that however much or little they may demand they should be obtained by their own efforts. - Errico Malatesta
Government is Best which Governs Least - Thomas Jefferson
I heartily accept the motto, - "that governement is best which governs least;" and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systemmatically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, - "that government is best which governs not at all;" and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. - Thoreau
Look around us at this world that we call 'civilized' and that for more than 2000 years has searched to obtain happiness and avoid suffering by false means: trickery, corruption, hate, abuse of power, and exploitation of others. We have searched only for individual and material happiness, opposing people against each other, one race against another, social systems against others. This has led to a time of fear, of suffering, murder, and famine. If in India, Africa, and other countries misery and famine rule, it is not because natural resources are lacking, nor that means of bringing about lasting well-being are flawed. It is because each person has looked only for his own profit without fear of oppressing others for selfish goals, and this sad and pitiful world is the result. The root of this civilization is rotten, the world suffers, and if it continues in this way, it will suffer more and more. - The fourteenth Dalai Lama
And here are some links to expand your mind:
what is anarchism
Anarchist FAQ
Anarchism
Conquest of Bread
ABCs of Anarchy
Anarchism.net
anarchist platform
anarchism pdfs
Zabalaza
Past and present anarchist communities
History of anarchism
Anarchist Agitation & Community Building
Mutual Aid
The Individual, Society and the State
Civil Disobedience
Anarchist Yellowpages
But if you really want to cut straight to the chase of your questions about anarchism as a practical alternative to the world as it is:
Anarchist Law & Order
And here are some other links:
antislavery.org
anti-slaverysociety
human rights watch
Critical Resistance
knowmore.org
whatreallyhappened.com
Police Brutality
Food Not Bombs
Steal This Book
A People's History of the United States
ParEcon
Znet - ParEcon
Don't be an idiot.
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