Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.