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.

the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

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

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". . .?

Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.