Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

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.

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

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

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

We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the milieu in which we live; for it corrupts our instinct and our will, and constricts our heart and our intelligence

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