By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

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

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."