CrimethInc. > Quotes

“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, Expect Resistance: A Field Manual

“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.”
― Nigel Davis

“Life's most beautiful and inspiring moments occur at 3am, just prowling, looking for nothing but always finding something.”
― Nigel Davis, Evasion

“Anarchism is the revolutionary idea that no one is more qualified than you are to decide what your life will be.”
― Crimethinc, Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink For Beginners

“We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it.”
― Crimethinc, Anarchy and Alcohol

“A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...”
― CrimethInc., Evasion

“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?”
― Nigel Davis, Expect Resistance: A Field Manual

“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. Workers' Collective, Expect Resistance: A Field Manual

“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., Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink For Beginners

“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, Work

“Where do you want to go, my heart?" "Anywhere - anywhere, out of this world.”
― CrimethInc., Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink For Beginners

“We left behind the other kids; their path-working, drinking, and being grown up- and rejected all that made them grumpy, uncreative and lifeless. We dumpstered, squatted, and shoplifted our lives back. Everything fell into place when we decided our lives were meant to be lived. Life serves the risk taker...”
― CrimethInc., Evasion

“. . . 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 . . .”
― Nigel Davis, Evasion

“Note: When reading dry political theory, such as the texts you will find on the following pages, it may be useful to apply the Exclamation Point Test from time to time, to determine if the material you are reading is actually relevant to your life. To apply this test, simply go through the text replacing all the punctuation marks at the ends of the sentences with exclamation points. If the results sound absurd when read aloud, then you know you're wasting your time.”
― CrimethInc., Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink For Beginners

“Domination is a relationship, not a condition; it depends on the participation of both parties. Hierarchical power is not just the gun in the policeman's hand; it is just as much the obedience of the ones who act as if it is always pointed at them. It is not just the government and the executives and the armed forces; it extends through society from top to bottom, an interlocking web of control and compliance. Sometimes all it takes to be complicit in the oppression of millions is to die of natural causes.”
― CrimethInc., Contradictionary

“There is no "wrong train.”
― CrimethInc., Evasion

“Nothing can replace the feel of the paper against your fingers, the ink soaked up by paper, the sensation of turning a page with the wind rustling your hair, or the deliberate and intricate presentation of images and text that you can only get in the real world, on real pages. And few things can be as torturous as sitting in front of a computer screen for hours on end.”
― CrimethInc.

“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.”
― Nigel Davis, Evasion

“Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds!”
― Crimethinc, Anarchy and Alcohol

“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, Expect Resistance: A Field Manual

“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.”
― Nigel Davis, Evasion

“Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.”
― CrimethInc., Contradictionary

“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., Contradictionary

“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.”
― CrimethInc., Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink For Beginners

“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., Contradictionary

“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., Contradictionary

“See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet.”
― Crimethinc

“What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.”
― CrimethInc., Contradictionary

“Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.”
― CrimethInc., Contradictionary

“Tomorrow will use you the way you use today.”
― CrimethInc., Contradictionary