Intellectual Slavery, Of Whatever Nature It May

Priests, Kings, Statesmen, Soldiers, Bankers And Public Functionaries Of All Sorts; Policemen, Jailers And Hangmen; Capitalists, Usurers, Businessmen And Property-owners; Lawyers, Economists And Politicians - All Of Them, Down To The Meanest Grocer, Repeat In Chorus The Words Of Voltaire, That If There Were No God It Would Be Necessary To Invent Him.

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.

As Long As We Have A Master In Heaven, We Will Be Slaves On Earth.

Collective Property And Individual Property, These Two Banners Will Be The Standards Under Which, From Now On, The Great Battles Of The Future Will Be Fought.

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