A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

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.

Religion is a collective insanity.

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.

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

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

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.