The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

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 democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.