Where The State Begins, Individual Liberty Ceases,

We Must Overthrow The Material And Moral Conditions Of Our Present-day Life. . . . We Must First Purify Our Atmosphere And Completely Transform The Milieu In Which We Live; For It Corrupts Our Instinct And Our Will, And Constricts Our Heart And Our Intelligence

The Idea Of God Implies The Abdication Of Human Reason And Justice; It Is The Most Decisive Negation Of Human Liberty And Necessarily Ends In The Enslavement Of Mankind Both In Theory And Practice.

If You Took The Most Ardent Revolutionary, Vested Him In Absolute Power, Within A Year He Would Be Worse Than The Tsar Himself.

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.

For Ten Centuries Christianity, Armed With The Omnipotence Of The Church And State And Opposed By No Competition, Was Able To Deprave, Debase, And Falsify The Mind Of Europe. It Had No Competitors, Because Outside The Church There Was Neither Thinkers Nor Educated Persons. It Alone Taught, It Alone Spoke And Wrote, It Alone Taught.