There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

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

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

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.