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.

They don't know it, but they are doing it.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

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

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