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

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

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

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.

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

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

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