Occupation: Zoologist Birth: December 9, 1842 Death: February 8, 1921
It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake..
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.….
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….
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….
But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? ….
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….
The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch..
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….
When one has talent, everything contributes to its development..
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….
The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them..
War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand..
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….
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..
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….
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….
Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches..
Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor..
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….