He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

All this happens without him knowing - they actually install cameras in his apartment and hire this girl to get him to fall in love with her so that she can be in the apartment and present him products without him knowing.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.