Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state-that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation.

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

Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.