Occupation: Zoologist Birth: December 9, 1842 Death: February 8, 1921
You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it ….
We take men for what they are worth - and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might - perhaps not strong ….
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.….
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold..
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….
Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!.
He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read..
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….
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….
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….
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot….
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….
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….
But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? ….
Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities..
No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are ….
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….
The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch..
True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal init….
As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government..
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….