The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.