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

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.