...these are things that put pure socialism so far into the future. If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their e… - Elbert Green Hubbard

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself. Prizefighters die young, gourmands get the gout, hate hurts worse the man who nurses it, and all selfishness robs the mind of its divine insight, and cheats the soul that would know. Mind alone is eternal. He, watching over Israel, slumbers not nor sleeps. My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.