The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.