We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles.