People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

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

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

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

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

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