A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Religion is the opium of the masses.