To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.

Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on