Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

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

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.