It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.