In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.