The peoples' revolution... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty.

Religion is a collective insanity.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

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

If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom.

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