Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.