The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.
The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.
Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.
I do not wish to be either governor or governed!
The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.
All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.
As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
AXIOM. – Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.
It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.
Communism – the first expression of the social nature – is the first term of social development – the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term – the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution.
Property is impossible.
Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.
Property is theft!
It is through separation that you will win: no representatives, and no candidates!
When politics and home life have become one and the same, when economic problems have been solved in such a way that individual and collective interests are identical – all constraints having disappeared – it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.
When our ideas on any subject, material, intellectual, or social, undergo a thorough change in consequence of new observations, I call that movement of the mind revolution. If the ideas are simply extended or modified, there is only progress. Thus the system of Ptolemy was a step in astronomical progress, that of Copernicus was a revolution.
It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.
My hatred of privilege and human authority was unbounded; perhaps at times I have been guilty, in my indignation, of confounding persons and things; at present I can only despise and complain; to cease to hate I only needed to know.