When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.