Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.