Read morePolitical Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Read moreA jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
Read moreI am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
Read morePeople go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Read moreTo my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
Read moreDoes it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.