Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

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.