The urge to destroy is a creative urge.

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

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

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.