Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.