Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.