The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

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

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.