Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.