Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

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

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.