All Societies Are Based On

The Fascinating Thing About Standard Economic Stories Is Exactly That: They Assume That Everybody Wants That Kind Of Closure. That All Human Relations Are Forms Of Exchange, Because If Everything Is An Exchange Then It's True That We're Both Equals. We Walk Up, I Give You Something, You Give Me Something, And We Walk Away. Or I Give You Something, You Don't Give Me Something Right Now, And You Owe Me. So If We Have Any Ongoing Relationships At All, It's Because Somebody Is In Debt.

Direct Action Is, Ultimately, The Defiant Insistence On Acting As If One Is Already Free.

Aristotle [would] Probably Conclude Most Americans, For All Intents And Purposes, Are Slaves.

In The Largest Scheme Of Things, Just As No One Has The Right To Tell Us Our True Value, No One Has The Right To Tell Us What We Truly Owe.

[a] Great Embarrassing Fact… Haunts All Attempts To Represent The Market As The Highest Form Of Human Freedom: That Historically, Impersonal, Commercial Markets Originate In Theft.