Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born

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

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!

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.

People 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.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

You have every right to a beautiful life.

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.

I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

There is no substitute for character. You can buy brains but you cannot buy character.

When you retire for the night offer grateful homage to God for being with you all day long.