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

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Religion is a collective insanity.

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.

The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.

Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.