The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

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

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy