A Divine Falsehood Is More

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.

The State Is A Force Incarnate. Worse, It Is The Silly Parading Of Force. It Never Seeks To Prevail By Persuasion. Whenever It Thrusts Its Finger Into Anything It Does So In The Most Unfriendly Way. Its Essence Is Command And Compulsion.

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 And Maintenance Of The Power Of The National State-that Is, The Mainstay Of All The Priveleges Of The Exploiters Throughout The Nation.

Does It Follow That I Reject All Authority? Perish The Thought. In The Matter Of Boots, I Defer To The Authority Of The Boot-maker.

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 My Freedom, Is, On The Contrary, Its Necessary Premise And Confirmation.