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

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

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

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

Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

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