- Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.
- Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.
- Where there is authority, there is no freedom.
- The hopeless don’t revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.
- The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
- America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
- Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.
- Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.
- Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.
- True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery.
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