A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

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

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

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

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.

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State.

There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.