The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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

...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.