In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.