As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

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

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.

All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.