For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify the mind of Europe. It had no competitors, because outside the Church there was neither thinkers nor educated persons. It alone taught, it alone spoke and wrote, it alone taught.

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.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

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.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.