Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.