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.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.