Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

I am nothing but I must be everything.

Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.