The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.

Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.