The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.