The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

Communism begins where atheism begins.