The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery

I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft

The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice

The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

The anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that a