Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

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

But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.