Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

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.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.