But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

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.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.