Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state-that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation.

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

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

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

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.

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State.