Occupation: Zoologist Birth: December 9, 1842 Death: February 8, 1921
Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that..
It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free fed….
The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of….
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle..
Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give..
As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government..
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 advantag….
Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domesti….
Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read….
I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could nev….
The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is ac….
He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read..
But times and tempers are changed. Rebels are everywhere to be found who no longer wish to obey the law without knowing whence it comes, what are its….
No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are ….
Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in this complex world, th….
Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, priso….
My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained of f….
When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reali….
Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities..
Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made a religion; mor….
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none..