And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

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

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!