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This is a brutal book – sensual, rude, coarse, and cruel. However, it is timely and well-written, even witty.

— William Powell The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)

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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.

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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