All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

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.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

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

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.