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Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
Treat any and all drugs with respect, for most of the time they are stronger than you are.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
This chapter is going to kill and maim more people than all the rest put together, because people just refuse to take things seriously.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
In the training of any freedom fighters there must be a merger of fearlessness and intelligent caution. A dead man has no use for confidence or courage.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
This is a brutal book – sensual, rude, coarse, and cruel. However, it is timely and well-written, even witty.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
A man must make himself a man, he must enable himself to stand up on two legs, unafraid because he has confidence in his own security and in his own power. There is no place for emotionally or politically cuckolded people in the society I speak of. Survival of the fittest.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
It has got to the point in this country where men believe they are men, just because that is their birthright. If that is true, then, by the same logic, an animal held captive in a zoo is still a free wild beast.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough about something to do something about it, then he shouldn't prostitute himself by doing something symbolic. He should get out and do something real.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)