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- From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting…
- This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only…
- Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
- It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one…
- Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation…
- They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is:…
- Man is only truly free only among equally free men.
- Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere as the other;…
- That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among…
- A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation…
- Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.
- A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.
- Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.
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