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

Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?

It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free federation that we can reach Communism — the possession in common of our social inheritance, and the production in common of all riches.

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

The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

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.

Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.