Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

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.