The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. 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 in the hands of government.

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

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 anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.