Occupation: Writer Birth: March 25, 1873 Death: September 19, 1958
Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future ….
Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle it rejec….
The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but….
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of exp….
Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has….
Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extincti….
One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being..
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full develop….
Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all polit….
So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and to sink into the most wretched….
Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything..
Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give them a….
The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history. Th….
Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that w….
I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal..
Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which we….
Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, ….
We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even ….
The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!.
Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a peop….
The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ev….