The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man