The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

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

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". . .?

The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

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.