I Intend To Escape ......................And Come Back

Today's Aphorism

Pick up any newspaper in Europe, Asia or anywhere else, regardless of date. It is only seldom and as if by chance that one finds anything about the basic principles and nature of the processes of love, work and knowledge, their vital neccesity, their interrelationship, their rationality, their seriousness etc.

On the other hand, the newspapers are full of high politics, diplomacy, military and formal events, which have no bearing upon the real process of everyday life. In this way the average working man and woman are imbued with the feeling that ..... they are small, inadequate, superflous, and not much more than an accident in life.

Wilhlem Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism.

Today's Aphorism

Rise like lions after slumber,
In unvanquishable number;
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many, they are few.

Shelley, The Mask of Anarchy.

Today's Aphorism

"For every dollar the boss has and didn't work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it."

IWW leader Big Bill Haywood.

Today's Aphorism

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."

Arthur Schopenhauer, Aphorisms.

Today's Aphorism

"The scab is powerless under terrorism. As a rule, he is not so good nor so gritty a man as the men he is displacing, and he lacks their fighting organisation."

Jack London, The Scab.

Today's Aphorism

"Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master."

Albert Parsons, "The Philosophy of Anarchism."

Today's Aphorism

"There is only one answer to the question - what can be done to better this penal system? Nothing. A prison cannot be improved. With the exception of a few unimportant little improvements, there is absolutely nothing to do but demolish it."

Peter Kropotkin "Prisons And Their Moral Influence On Prisoners".

Today's Aphorism

Don't Trust Experts!

Today's Aphorism

"The Spaniards inflicted upon us the worst superstition the world has ever known: the Catholic religion. For this alone they should all be shot."

Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.

Today's Aphorism

"It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come and do not see the things which happen today. We see them only too well, and in their true colours, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forests of prejudices that beset us."

Peter Kropotokin, Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal.