I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

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

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

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

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.