The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution.

With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed, exploited to further the security of the newly acquired governmental power.

The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.

Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Will it not lead to a revolution? Indeed, it will. No real social change has ever come without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.