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

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

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.

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

The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery.

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

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.