Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state-that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Religion is collective insanity.

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

The urge to destroy is a creative urge.

People’s State, is a yoke, on the one hand giving rise to despotism and on the other to slavery. They say that such a yoke – dictatorship is a transitional step towards achieving full freedom for the people: anarchism or freedom is the aim, while state and dictatorship is the means, and so, in order to free the masses of people, they have first to be enslaved!

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.