Occupation: Zoologist Birth: December 9, 1842 Death: February 8, 1921
When one has talent, everything contributes to its development..
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold..
Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tr….
War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand..
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation..
While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual modifications, the other porti….
War is the usual condition of Europe..
It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake..
The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch..
A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success u….
If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you ca….
Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor..
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of th….
Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaole….
Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives.….
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..
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….
As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government..
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….
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….
No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are ….