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

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.

The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.

Religion is collective insanity.

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

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