The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.

If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

Religion is 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.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

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

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