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

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

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

The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.