The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

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.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.