Birth: April 17, 1854 Death: June 22, 1939
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 State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary..
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.
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….
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….
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth..
And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming….
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt..
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will..
The right of the majority is absolute..
The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which gov….
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….
Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility….
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital..
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….
Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-c….
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression….
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?.