Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

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

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.