"Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all"
"They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit"
"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."
"People get accustomed to the established order of things and tremble at the idea of change. It is this lethargic spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit"
"Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state."
"Pagan anarchists don't make rules for other people. No one is saying that a Pagan is not allowed to be a supporter of capitalism. You're always allowed to do whatever you choose-but that doesn't mean it makes sense."
"...what does it mean for a Pagan to be apolitical? It can only mean that you will allow mountains be blown apart for coal, forests to be clear-cut, rivers to be poisoned, and the Earth to be overheated until it becomes unlivable."
"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."
"Merciless criticism and independent thinking are two traits of revolutionary thinking. Lovers, lunatics and poets are made of the same stuff"
"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."
"It is capitalism and government which stand for disorder and violence. Anarchism is the very reverse of it; it means order without government and peace without violence."
"The state idea means something quite different from the idea of government."
"Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!"
"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."
"It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation."
"There are periods in the life of human society when revolution becomes an imperative necessity, when it proclaims itself as inevitable."
"Terrorism is tempting with its tremendous possibilities. It offers a mechanical solution, as it were, in hopeless situations."
"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."
"The individual is quite a world of federations, a whole universe in himself."
"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."
"And as you are invaded and violated, so you subconsciously revenge yourself by invading and violating others over whom you have authority or can exercise compulsion. physical or moral. In this way all life has become a crazy quilt of authority, of domination and submission, of command and obedience, of coercion and subjection, of rulers and ruled, of violence and force in a thousand and one forms."
"If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion."
"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."
"May the enemies of the people be terrified at the unexpected awakening."
"One courageous act has sufficed to upset in a few days the entire governmental machinery, to make the colossus tremble."
"It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep."
"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."
