He who is given power will inevitably become an oppressor and exploiter of society. - Mikhail Bakunin

Lo que predico es, pues, hasta un cierto punto, la rebelión de la vida contra la ciencia, o más bien contra el gobierno de la ciencia. No para destruir la ciencia –eso sería un crimen de lesa humanidad–, sino para ponerla en su puesto, de manera que no pueda volver a salir de él. Hasta el presente toda la historia humana no ha sido más que una inmolación perpetua y sangrienta de millones de pobres seres humanos a una abstracción despiadada cualquiera: Dios, patria, poder el estado, honor nacional, derechos históricos, derechos jurídicos, libertad política, bien público.

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

The most terrible poverty, however, even when it strikes a proletariat numbering in the many millions, is not a sufficient guarantee of revolution. Nature has given man an astonishing and, indeed, sometimes despairing, patience, and the devil knows what he will not endure when, along with poverty that condemns him to unheard-of privations and slow starvation, he is also endowed with obtuseness, emotional numbness, lack of any consciousness of his rights, and the kind of imperturbability and obedience that particularly characterize the east Indians and the Germans, among all nations. Such a fellow will never take heart; he will die, but he will not rebel.