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.

Religion is the balm of the people.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

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

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.