Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.