There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.