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

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.