Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one an anarchist. That aspiration towards unlimited freedom, if not tempered by a love for mankind and by the desire that all should enjoy equal freedom, may well create rebels who soon become exploiters and tyrants.

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

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

The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything.... Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

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