The Privileged Man, Whether He Be Privileged

The Truth Is That The Whole Life Of The Worker Is Simply A Continuous And Dismaying Succession Of Terms Of Serfdom - Voluntary From The Juridical Point Of View But Compulsory In The Economic Sense - Broken Up By Momentarily Brief Interludes Of Freedom Accompanied By Starvation; In Other Words, It Is Real Slavery.

We Must Overthrow The Material And Moral Conditions Of Our Present-day Life. . . . We Must First Purify Our Atmosphere And Completely Transform The Milieu In Which We Live; For It Corrupts Our Instinct And Our Will, And Constricts Our Heart And Our Intelligence

There Are But Three Ways For The Populace To Escape Its Wretched Lot. The First Two Are By The Routes Of The Wine-shop Or The Church; The Third Is By That Of The Social Revolution.

I Feel Myself Always The Patriot Of All Oppressed Fatherlands. Nationality Is A Historic, Local Fact Which, Like All Real And Harmless Facts, Has The Right To Claim General Acceptance. Every People, Like Every Person, Is Involuntarily That Which It Is And Therefore Has A Right To Be Itself. Nationality Is Not A Principle; It Is A Legitimate Fact, Just As Individuality Is. Every Nationality, Great Or Small, Has The Incontestable Right To Be Itself, To Live According To Its Own Nature. This Right Is Simply The Corollary Of The General Principal Of Freedom.

I Am Not Myself Free Or Human Until Or Unless I Recognize The Freedom And Humanity Of All My Fellowmen... 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.