It Is The Characteristic Of Privilege And

Does Man's Freedom Consist In Revolting Against All Laws? We Say No, In So Far As Laws Are Natural, Economic, And Social Laws, Not Authoritatively Imposed But Inherent In Things, In Relations, In Situations, The Natural Development Of Which Is Expressed By Those Laws. We Say Yes If They Are Political And Juridical Laws, Imposed Upon Men By 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 Is To Say Both Of Them Are Equally Brazen In Their Lies, And It Is Only Fools Who Are Deceived By Them. Sensible Persons, All Those Who Have Had Some Political Experience, Do Not Even Take The Trouble Of Reading Such Manifestos.

Religion Is A Collective Insanity.

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

Human Nature Is So Constituted That The Propensity For Evil Is Always Intensified By External Circumstances, And The Morality Of The Individual Depends Much More On The Conditions Of His Existence And The Environment In Which He Lives Than On His Own Will.