Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

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?

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.