The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity

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.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

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.

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.