Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.