Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery.