The great majority of people have to work in order to earn a livelihood, and a sizable proportion of them are productive workers. A huge number of workers are unproductive as well. They operate entirely with the circumstances and framework created by the capitalist system, such as shuffling invoices, contracts, credit slips, insurance policies, and so forth. Probably nine out of ten "workers" wouldn't have any work to do in a rational society -- one that would not require insurance or any other commercial transactions.
		-- Murray Bookchin
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An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
		-- Murray Bookchin
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Our being is becoming, not stasis. Our science is utopia, our reality is eros, our desire is revolution.
		-- Murray Bookchin
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I believe in individual freedom; that's my primary and complete commitment -- individual liberty. That's what it's all about. And that's what socialism was supposed to be about, or anarchism was supposed to be about, and tragically has been betrayed.
		-- Murray Bookchin
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The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
		-- Murray Bookchin
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If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
		-- Murray Bookchin
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