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

Music is the mirror of reality.

In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country and no people have struggled so strenuously for their emancipation than Sicily and the Sicilians.

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.

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

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.