If There Be A Human Being Who

I Bow Before The Authority Of Special Men Because It Is Imposed Upon Me By My Own Reason.

But I Recognize No Infallible Authority, Even In Special Questions; Consequently, Whatever Respect I May Have For The Honesty And The Sincerity Of Such Or Such An Individual, I Have No Absolute Faith In Any Person.

The Peoples' Revolution... Will Arrange Its Revolutionary Organisation From The Bottom Up And From The Periphery To The Centre, In Keeping With The Principle Of Liberty.

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.