Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

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

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.