Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.

When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.