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

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

If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?

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.

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

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

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.