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

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!

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.

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

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.