We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.

Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.

If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation and the state.

the heart aches through nights—the broken places of neglect

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.

Original thinking is the hardest thing you can try to do or that you can do, but it is also the most rewarding. Focus on your personal growth and development

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

We don't need youth museums but we do need holy young people.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.