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

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.

God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.

Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

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

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

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