CrimethInc. Quotes

Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds!

Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed – that's where lawyers and reporters come from, you know. They're the cynical corpses of idealistic young people who thought the system could be reformed.

Accident - A statistical inevitability. Some nuclear power plants are built on fault lines, but ever mine, dam, oil rig, and waste dump is founded upon a tacit acceptance of the worst-case scenario. One a long enough timeline, everything that can go wrong will, however small the likelihood is from one day to the next. The responsible parties may wring their hands about the Fukushima meltdown - and the Gult of Mexico oil spill, and the Exxon Valdez, and Hurricane Katrina, and Chernobyl, and Haiti - but accident is no accident.

Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it.

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.

Historically, the 'deadline' was the line around a prison beyond which prisoners were eligible for shooting. In keeping with shifts in the exercise of control, what one was delineated spatially over life is now enforced temporarily over labor.

In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.

One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities.