We Are Materialists And Atheists, And We

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.

We Are Convinced That Liberty Without Socialism Is Privilege, Injustice; And That Socialism Without Liberty Is Slavery And Brutality.

Religion Is A Collective Insanity.

Man Is Only Truly Free Only Among Equally Free Men.

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