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.
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.