There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Attractions are proportional to destinies.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight,the weight we carry is love.
Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
There can be no doubt that the Anarchist Idea, denying government, is by its very nature opposed to violence, which is the essence of every authoritarian system - the mode of action of every government
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
The satisfaction which they find in their work has given them a grace and ease like that which comes from music.
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Men who are capable of real action first make their plans and then go forward without hesitation while their enemies have still not made up their minds.
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!