The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

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