No Nation Can Be Free

The State Is Nothing But An Instrument Of Opression Of One Class By Another - No Less So In A Democratic Republic Than In A Monarchy.

Life Is The Mode Of Action Of Proteins.

The Anarchists Put The Thing Upside Down. They Declare That The Proletarian Revolution Must Begin By Doing Away With The Political Organization Of The State. But To Destroy It At Such A Moment Would Be To Destroy The Only Organism By Means Of Which The Victorious Proletariat Can Assert Its Newly-conquered Power, Hold Down Its Capitalist Adversaries, And Carry Out That Economic Revolution Of Society Without Which The Whole Victory Must End In A New Defeat And A Mass Slaughter Of The Workers Similar To Those After The Paris Commune.

I Have Learned More [from Balzac] Than From All The Professional Historians, Economists, And Statisticians Put Together.

If There Were No Frenchwomen, Life Wouldn't Be Worth Living.