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

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

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

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.

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

People’s State, is a yoke, on the one hand giving rise to despotism and on the other to slavery. They say that such a yoke – dictatorship is a transitional step towards achieving full freedom for the people: anarchism or freedom is the aim, while state and dictatorship is the means, and so, in order to free the masses of people, they have first to be enslaved!

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