The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement. For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.