"Oscar Wilde defines a perfect personality as "one who develops under perfect conditions, who is not wounded, maimed, or in danger." A perfect personality, then, is only possible in a state of society where man is free to choose the mode of work, the conditions of work, and the freedom to work. One to whom the making of a table, the building of a house, or the tilling of the soil, is what the painting is to the artist and the discovery to the scientist -- the result of inspiration, of intense longing, and deep interest in work as a creative force."

Anarchism and Other Essays:

Pamphlets and Articles:

• Address To The Jury (July 9, 1917)
  
  
• Address to the International Working Men's Association Congress
  
  
• "Alexander Berkman's Last Days." The Vanguard. New York: August-September 1936.
  
  
• An Unexpected Dash Through Spain
  
  
• Anarchy and the Sex Question
  
  
• A New Declaration of Independence Mother Earth, Vol. IV, no. 5, July 1909.
  
  
• A Sketch of Alexander Berkman
  
  
• Deportation Its Meaning and Menace
  
  
• Down With the Anarchists!
  
  
• Durruti is Dead, Yet Living
  
  
• Excerpts from "Trial and Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman"
       Mother Earth Publishing Association, New York: September 1917.
  
  
• The Failure of Christianity
  
  
• Jealousy: Causes and a Possible Cure
  
  
• On Frick's Assassination
  
  
• The Place of the Individual in Society
  
  
• The Philosophy of Atheism
  
  
• Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter Mother Earth, Vol. X, no. 10, December 1915.
  
  
• Ross Winn's Obituary, The Anarchist 27, September, 1912.
  
  
• "Sacco and Vanzetti." The Road to Freedom. New York: August 1929.
  
  
• "Samuel Gompers." The Road to Freedom. New York: March 1925.
  
  
• The Social Importance of the Modern School
  
  
• Socialism: Caught in the Political Trap
  
  
• Syndicalism: The Modern Menace to Capitalism Mother Earth Publishing Association, New York: 1913 pamphlet.
  
  
• "The Tragedy of the Political Exiles." The Nation, October 10, 1934.
  
  
• "Trotsky Protests Too Much." The Anarchist Communist Federation.
  
  
• The Truth About the Boylsheviki 1918.
  
  
• "Voltairine De Cleyre," Oriole Press, 1931.
  
  
• "Was My Life Worth Living?" Harper's Monthly Magazine, December 1934.
  
  
• What I Believe, New York World, July 19, 1908.

Anarchist writers