Crimethinc > Quotes

“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

“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

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

“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, Expect Resistance: A Field Manual

“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, 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?”
― Crimethinc, Expect Resistance: A Field Manual

“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

“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

“. . . 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, Evasion

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

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

“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, Evasion

“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

“Visit Arcata, I really do recommend it. Play the nearly impossible to find original Pac Man at the cafe, explore the HSU campus, see a two-dollar movie, buy a tofu dog from the vendor in Town Square, sleep on the rooftops, and if they ask you what time it is, there's only one correct answer--'4:20'!”
― Crimethinc, Evasion

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

“Passing judgment on others for decisions that affect only themselves is absolutely noxious to any anarchist – not to mention it makes them less likely to experiment with the options you offer.”
― Crimethinc, Anarchy and Alcohol

“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

“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: Capitalism. Economics. Resistance

“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, Evasion

“[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state.”
― Crimethinc, Anarchy and Alcohol

“Think of the power we could have if all the energy and effort in the world – or maybe even just your energy and effort? – that goes into drinking were put into resisting, building, creating. Try adding up all the money anarchists in your community have spent on corporate libations, and picture how much musical equipment or bail money or food it could have paid for – instead of funding their war against all of us.”
― Crimethinc, Anarchy and Alcohol