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.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

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

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.