With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.

The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

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

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production.

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.