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.

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.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.