Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

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

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

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

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.