We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the milieu in which we live; for it corrupts our instinct and our will, and constricts our heart and our intelligence

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

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.

Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

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

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.