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[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.
Religion is collective insanity.
Religion is a collective insanity.
Anarchism is "stateless socialism."
The urge to destroy is a creative urge.
Theology is the science of the divine lie.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!
Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.
Man is only truly free only among equally free men.
The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.
Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.
Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.
Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.
If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.
Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.
When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."
A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.
Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.
Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.
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.
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
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.
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