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

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.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

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