One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.