Occupation: Zoologist Birth: December 9, 1842 Death: February 8, 1921
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….
As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government..
There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending most of its powers to ….
The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations, a….
A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpre….
Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities..
The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them..
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….
War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand..
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….
The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are summed up in Anarch….
War is the usual condition of Europe..
It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and i….
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.….
He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read..
When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust..
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….
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….
Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to m….
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold..
True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal init….