The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

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.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.