Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

To Pierre," said Mr. Buckmaster, "the Communists are of the Right. The far Right. He refers to them as 'those goddamned Bourbons.' Pierre is an anarchist. That's why he's so happy in his shoplifting--he feels it helps undermine the state.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.