Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.

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.

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

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.

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.