Occupation: Author Birth: January 15, 1809 Death: January 19, 1865
Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets ….
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen i….
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society..
The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!.
Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak..
The possessions of the rich are stolen property..
When deeds speak, words are nothing..
The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution..
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government..
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism..
It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy..
Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign..
Universal suffrage is counter-revolution..
Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in any….
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy..
Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upo….
The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a th….
If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other….
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the w….
All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it..
I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!.