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

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.

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

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

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.

All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is determined by the natural division of work and by the choice he makes of a profession, if the social functions are combined in such a way as to produce a harmonious effect, order results from the free activity of all men; there is no government. Whoever puts a hand on me to govern me is an usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.