Birth: April 17, 1854 Death: June 22, 1939
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?.
Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-c….
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice..
Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of ord….
The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which gov….
Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up..
The right of the majority is absolute..
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But it….
Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a p….
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly repres….
The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasin….
In times past...it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and I long ago sloughed it off. Man's only right to l….
If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it w….
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression….
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least i….
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction..
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act..
There is no freedom that I would grant to any man that I would refuse to woman, and there is no freedom that I would refuse to either man or woman ex….
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury..
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will..