"The coming Revolution could render no greater service to humanity than by making the wage system, in all its forms, an impossibility, and by rendering Communism, which is the negation of wage-slavery, the only possible solution."
"Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state."
"Be strong. Overflow with emotional and intellectual energy, and you will spread your intelligence, your love, your energy of action broadcast among others! This is what all moral teaching comes to."
"The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history."
"When I say Anarchism you hear Chaos, Violence, Mayhem. When I say Anarchism I mean Cooperation, Voluntary Association, Mutual Aid"
"When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust."
"Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime? Is not the court of a tribunal a school of ferocity?"
"A structure based on centuries of history cannot be destroyed with a few kilos of explosives."
"It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist."
"The morality which is born out of the present conception of the state and social hierarchy is necessarily corrupt."
"Do not quarrel or deal in personalities. Listen to opposing arguments after you have presented your own. Learn how to remain silent and reflect. Do not try to get the better in an argument at the expense of your own sincerity."
"The state idea means something quite different from the idea of government."
"Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!"
"I am sorry to see friends impelled by passion drifting to the idea of vengeance, which is so little scientific, so sterile. But armed defense of a right is not violence."
"The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race."
"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind."
"Governmental communism, like theocratic communism, is repugnant to the worker."
"It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us."
"In place of the cowardly phrase, "Obey the law," our cry is "Revolt against all laws!""
"Instead of inanely repeating the old formula, "Respect the law," we say, "Despise law and all its attributes!""
"What economists call over-production is but a production that is above the purchasing power of the worker, who is reduced to poverty by capital and state."
"Freedoms are not given, they are taken."
"Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle."
"Instead of entrusting the defence of your interests to others, see to the matter by yourselves. Instead of trying to choose advisers that will guide you in future actions, do the thing yourselves, and do it now! Men of good will shall not have to look long in vain for the opportunity. To put on others' shoulders the responsibility of one's actions is cowardice."
"There are periods in the life of human society when revolution becomes an imperative necessity, when it proclaims itself as inevitable."
"It is above all over the question of the state that socialists are divided."
"In existing states a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil."
"Not to speak of war and its crimes, from the guilt of which no civilized state is free, can it be denied that chief among the consequences of the existing social system are murder, maladies, and death."
"The individual is quite a world of federations, a whole universe in himself."
"You should reject every authority, but also commit yourself to a deep respect for all sincere convictions. Live your own life, but also allow others the complete freedom to live theirs."
"Our destiny is to reach that state of ideal perfection in which nations will no longer need to be under the tutelage of a government or of another nation; it is the absence of government, it is anarchy, the highest expression of order."
"The peoples of the world are becoming profoundly dissatisfied and are not appeased by the promise of the social democrats to patch up the state into a new engine of oppression."
"The word "state" is identical with the word "war.""
"Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, are as contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic."
"Individual appropriation is neither just nor serviceable. All belongs to all."
"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society."
"The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation."
"The Roman Empire was a state in the real sense of the word. To this day it remains the legist's ideal."
"All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate every one's part in the production of the world's wealth."
"Those animals which acquire habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest."
"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror."
"Side neither with nations nor with parties. Be neither Russians, Poles nor Slavs. Rather, be men who hunger for truth, free from any thoughts of particular interests, and from speculative ideas concerning the Chinese, Africans or Europeans. The patriot always ends up hating the foreigner, and loses the sense of justice that once kindled his enthusiasm."
"One courageous act has sufficed to upset in a few days the entire governmental machinery, to make the colossus tremble."
"It is especially in the domain of ethics that the dominating importance of the mutual aid principle appears in full."
"A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation."
