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

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

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