Religion is the balm of the people.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

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

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production.