Occupation: Zoologist Birth: December 9, 1842 Death: February 8, 1921
In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to the situation of ye….
All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by all, and tha….
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..
But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should….
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….
In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to al….
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….
The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them..
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..
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….
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….
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….
The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope..
...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice ….
You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'.
War is the usual condition of Europe..
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 ….
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….
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been m….
Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches..
When one has talent, everything contributes to its development..