25 quotes
The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Take any work on astronomy of the last century, or the beginning of ours. You will no longer find in it, it goes without saying, our tiny planet placed in the center of the universe.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Educated men — "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
The individual is quite a world of federations, a whole universe in himself.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
The masses have never believed in sophisms taught by economists, uttered more to confirm exploiters in their rights than to convert exploited!
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
It is not without a certain hesitation that I have decided to take the philosophy and ideal of Anarchy as the subject of this lecture.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
This conception and ideal of society is certainly not new.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Such, also, are the revolutions of mankind.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
To begin with, if man, since his origin, has always lived in societies, the State is but one of the forms of social life, quite recent as far as regards European societies.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Governmental Communism, like theocratic Communism, is repugnant to the worker.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
What economists call over-production is but a production that is above the purchasing power of the worker, who is reduced to poverty by Capital and State.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
When a physiologist speaks now of the life of a plant or of an animal, he sees rather an agglomeration, a colony of millions of separate individuals than a personality one and indivisible.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
These societies already begin to encroach everywhere on the functions of the State, and strive to substitute free action of volunteers for that of a centralized State.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Our whole education — made, be it noted, by Church and State, in the interests of both — revolts at this conception.
Is it less true for that?
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
As he went on analyzing the coercive factors he realized their insufficiency. He consecrated a whole volume to their analysis, and the result was to lessen their importance!
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Did not the Parisian press, only two or three years ago, maintain that the whole philosophy of Anarchy consisted in destruction, and that its only argument was violence?
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Sometimes men have even given themselves trouble to reflect, and at the present moment we have at least gained a point: it is willingly admitted that Anarchists have an ideal. Their ideal is even found too beautiful, too lofty for a society not composed of superior beings.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)