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.

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social laws, not authoritatively imposed but inherent in things, in relations, in situations, the natural development of which is expressed by those laws. We say YES if they are political and juridical laws, imposed upon men by men.