It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.