I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.

We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the milieu in which we live; for it corrupts our instinct and our will, and constricts our heart and our intelligence

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.

The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.