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.

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

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

Religion is a collective insanity.

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.