If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

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

The urge to destroy is a creative urge.