We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

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.

Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is not the freedom to be wrong.

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

I think that I'm always going to think that it's silly to value certain things that no matter how many people find it really valuable, it's always just going to seem a little silly to me.

I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.