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

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

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.

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

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

The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.