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

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

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.

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

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.