“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”

“Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.”

“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”

“What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer.”

“Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.”

“There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.”

“Revolutions go not backward.”

“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?”

“Earth's a howling wilderness,Truculent with fraud and force.”

“Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.”

“I hope I shall never see the daywhen the Force of Rightis deprived of the Right of Force.”

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.”

“Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.”