Religion is a collective insanity.

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

It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of Europe

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