Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

They don't know it, but they are doing it.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons.