The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy