"Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller."

"We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory."

"We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel."