There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.