...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

I am nothing and should be everything.

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.