I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.