To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.