Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.

Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals.

The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

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