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.

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

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

If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom.

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

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

Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.