For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

Your hope will never be cut off.

Economy is essential to all good art.

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.

When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege.

Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.