"The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat…"

"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"

"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex."

"It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bo…"

"Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included)."