Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

And what is impossible to science?

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.