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

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.