Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'

The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.

No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.

All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, "Respect the law," we say, "Despise law and all its Attributes!" In place of the cowardly phrase, "Obey the law," our cry, is "Revolt against all laws!"