Top 40 Crimethinc Quotes
#1. Every promoter who brings together a great crowd in order to sell them back their own togetherness runs the risk that some of his customers will take things too far and engage in some street sports of their own." - CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective, Expect Resistance
Anonymous
#3. Anarchism is the revolutionary idea that no one is more qualified than you are to decide what your life will be.
CrimethInc.
#5. Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such.
CrimethInc.
#6. Then life began, and since then we remember each dumpster, abandoned house, and foot-chase by retail security. At night, after running around, plotting and scheming, our checklist items all crossed out, we paused to think - 'What to do tomorrow?' and the answer was always, 'As we please ...
CrimethInc.
#7. Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more important than mere peace on earth? Isn't freedom, even dangerous freedom, preferable to the safest slavery, to peace bought with ignorance, cowardice, and submission?
CrimethInc.
#9. I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.
CrimethInc.
#10. Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.
CrimethInc.
#11. No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live; no one should be able to vote on what you do with your time and your potential unless you invite them to.
CrimethInc.
#13. 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.
CrimethInc.
#14. Form your own autonomous group, answering to no power but your own, and chase down freedom for yourselves, if your representatives will not do if for you- since they cannot do it for you.
CrimethInc.
#15. Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it.
CrimethInc.
#16. In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.
CrimethInc.
#17. Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.
CrimethInc.
#18. Life's most beautiful and inspiring moments occur at 3am, just prowling, looking for nothing but always finding something.
CrimethInc.
#20. Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.
Curious George Brigade
#22. One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities.
CrimethInc.
#23. We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it.
CrimethInc.
#24. See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet.
CrimethInc.
#25. To see beauty is to learn the private language of meaning which is another's life - to recognize and relish what is. beauty must be defined as what we are, or else the concept itself is our enemy. why languish in the shadow of a standard we cannot personify, an ideal we cannot live?
CrimethInc.
#26. Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.
CrimethInc.
#27. And I thought
when you're a half-hour late, and your friends think you're in jail, it's probably a sign you steal too much.
CrimethInc.
#28. If you are a warrior, the nature and scale of your enemies will determine the nature and scale of your actions. In this sense, it is even more important to choose your enemies more wisely than your friends.
CrimethInc.
#29. Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction.
CrimethInc.
#30. A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good ...
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#31. The authorities don't grant concessions out of the kindness of their hearts; they simply concede the reality of what their subjects are strong enough to compel from them. If you want political leverage, don't beg for it, don't seek it through their channels - take power outside them.
CrimethInc.
#32. A truly radical resolution would be to embrace existence just as it is, as the only thing that matters, to proclaim that the world itself is heaven, made for our total enjoyment and fulfillment ...
CrimethInc.
#33. The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.
Curious George Brigade
#34. What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.
CrimethInc.
#35. Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.
CrimethInc.
#36. That night was my first exposure to the life I was supposed to be living at my age. I dont know, I didn't get it. "You'll get a job, hate your life, and you'll want to drink too!"-they always say.
CrimethInc.
#37. Can we imagine a togetherness that isn't founded on gross generalizations, conceptualizing ourselves as unique individuals who still stand to gain from looking out for one another? Can we identify with each other rather than with categories or masters?
CrimethInc.
#38. Tomorrow will use you the way you use today.
CrimethInc.
#39. Only by concealing our identities can we shed the masks we have to wear at school, at work, even at home - everywhere there is surveillance, policing, punishment - masks that are increasingly indistinguishable from ourselves.
CrimethInc.
#40. Where do you want to go, my heart?" "Anywhere - anywhere, out of this world.
CrimethInc.
