The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.