There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry – the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.
There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.
What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.
Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.
Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.
Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.
No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.
After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.
Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.
Understand one another.
Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.
The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.
Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.
It is characteristic of theistic “tolerance” that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.
True, the movement for women’s rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.
Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.
Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.