It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

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

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

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

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.