In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.