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

Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

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

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.