Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.