If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.