Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.

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

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.