I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

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