"Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love."

"M. Proudhon has the misfortune of being particularly misunderstood in Europe. In France, he has the right to be a bad economist, because he is reputed to be a good German philosopher. In Germany, he h…"

"The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates."

"The development of productive forces has reached a point where the existence of private property and the bourgeoisie are incompatible with further social development."

"A people without character, without any historical initiative, a people that has only been used as a tool by other nations, will achieve its freedom only by becoming a tool for a revolution that will …"