I ask to live a worker; otherwise I will die a warrior.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!

Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

Anarchy is order, government is civil war.

Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

Property is theft.

La propriété, c'est le vol!

Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law, is alone sufficient to maintain order and guarantee all liberties.

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.