If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.