Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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

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

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.