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.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities.

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.

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.