"Our cause cannot expect me to become a nun and the movement will not be turned into a cloister."
"If revolution results only in a change of dictatorship, then it is hardly worth while."
"May the enemies of the people be terrified at the unexpected awakening."
"Disorganization is the twin sister of irresponsibility, and together they lead to impoverished ideas and futile practice."
"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony."
"The state is nothing but this domination and this exploitation, well regulated and systematised."
"There is no such thing as harmless power."
"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it."
"The authoritarian principle has been proven bankrupt by the experience of the Russian Revolution."
"A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions."
"True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force - necessity."
"Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future."
"Justice, equality, fraternity, prosperity of men... if God exists, all these things are condemned to non-existence."
"Free love? As if love is anything but free! Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere."
"Wheresoever it be, there will exist the power of certain men over others, and there will not be freedom, but there will be the oppression of one portion of mankind by another. Therefore power must be abolished."
"Revolution is indeed a violent process."
"Only the man who has successfully rid himself of the chains of oppression and seen all the horrors being perpetrated against the human race can be persuaded that his freedom and that of his neighbor are inviolable, as are their lives, and that his neighbor is his brother."
"In its mad passion for power, the communist state even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy."
"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled utopian."
"Since the birth of the state, the world of politics has always been and continues to be the stage for unlimited rascality and brigandage."
"As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth."
"I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen."
"One thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth which finds place in every soul that is not stupefied by religious and scientific superstitions - the truth that for our life one law is valid - the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind."
"One courageous act has sufficed to upset in a few days the entire governmental machinery, to make the colossus tremble."
"To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them."
"Unity is the great goal toward which humanity moves irresistibly."
"It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep."
"The anarchist ideal is large and rich in its diversity. Nevertheless, the role of anarchists in the social struggle of the masses is extremely modest. Their task is to help the masses take the right road in the struggle and in the construction of the new society."
"The peoples' revolution will arrange its revolutionary organization from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty."
"We do not doubt that, if the revolution broke out in several European countries, anarchists would suffer the same defeat because they are no less - if not even more so - divided on the plan of ideas and organization."
"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."
"If power is to be abolished it must be abolished not by force but by men's consciousness of its uselessness and evil."
"The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual."
"The police are making more anarchists than I could do in ten years."
"It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe."
"If there is a state, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery."
"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."
"The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism."
"As the uselessness and harmfulness of patriotism have become manifest, so also has increased the power of the government and ruling class to excite patriotism among the people."
"The enemy is very strong because, for centuries past, he has made his living from theft and violence: he has the accumulated experience of that, he has overcome internal crises and now he puts on a new face."
"Always and everywhere among us, practical problems have been resolved by a majority of votes."
