I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.