To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

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

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

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

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.