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

The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.

The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.

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

If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.