💬 Quotes

"The true nature of home is this: the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division."

"A man's power is active, progressive, defensene. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender."

"The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but, on the other hand, their power of forgetting is huge. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must lard them in slogans until the very last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan."

"Mankind has grown great in eternal struggle, and only in perpetual peace does it succumb."

"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."

"All great movements are popular movements, volcanic eruptions of human passions and spiritual urges, stirred up either by the cruel goddess of distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the masses."

"He alone owns the youth who gains the future."

"Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by principles of humanity that man is set above the rest of the animal world, but solely by the most brutal struggle."

"It is not love to my neighbor—it is the consciousness of solidarity of interests among all members of the species, which each animal reflects in its practice."

"In the animal world we have seen that the vast majority of species live in societies, and that they find in association the best arms for the struggle for life."

"The medieval city was a fortified oasis in the middle of a country plundered by feudal lords."

"Society has been created by the instinct of solidarity, which has always been active in human nature, and which has been the mainspring of all man's progress."

"Full enjoyment of each of his faculties is what man aspires to; and this can be obtained only by the widest possible expansion of individual liberty, coupled with the highest development of social cohesion."

"Youth is the only period in which a human being can be said to be thoroughly alive."

"Relentless time, the burden of the years, the futility of regret—she knew them all."

"We are all the puppets of our environments, and yet we struggle as if we were free."

"Mr. Pearsall was one of those men who sincerely believe that they are the pillars of the universe, whereas they are merely its flies."

"Life is a vast, blind struggle; and the irony of it is that we are convinced we know what we are doing."

"To the eye of youth, the old are a distinct species, created old, and having no lot in common with the young."

"It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and black flag of the Anarchists."