The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

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

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