"The beer was usually bad, the gin always terrible, and the company on intellectual topics was not stimulating."

"The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got."

"The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation."

"Society can no longer exist as a community of free and equal individuals, but only as a mass of isolated, mutually hostile atoms, each striving to exploit the others."

"The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital."