Anarchy is order, government is civil war.
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.
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.
Liberty is not the daughter but the mother of order.
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.
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!
Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.
The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.
Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.