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

They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.

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

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

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

That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of Europe