Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

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.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.