We must make a very precise distinction between the official and consequently dictatorial prerogatives of society organized as a state, and of the natural influence and action of the members of a non-official, non-artificial society.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externall…

My dignity as a man, my human right which consists of refusing to obey any other man, and to determine my own acts in conformity with my convictions is reflect…

Diejenige Regierung ist die beste, die sich uberflussing macht.

...all earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain communi…

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe i…