"It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bo…"

"As a teacher of German philosophy he also had the advantage over me that he himself understood nothing about it."

"The demand for a free press is essentially a demand for the freedom of public opinion."

"The meaning of history is the progress of humanity toward freedom and self-consciousness."

"Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself."