Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

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

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.