Occupation: Writer Birth: December 14, 1853 Death: July 22, 1932
Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world..
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life base….
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the ….
And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the….
Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and consci….
The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it..
In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways consi….
For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as ….
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always..
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves..
The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want peace; if one of them ….
We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man..
Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, ….
If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding th….
Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted au….
The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything.... Better an error consciously committed ….
While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are c….
Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one an anarchist. That aspirat….
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always tha….
Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is not the freedom to be….
Impossibility never prevented anything from happening..