"Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list – the common seed within which all these f…"

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

"The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, in…"

"The worker is poor in proportion to the wealth he produces."

"For him, the solution of present-day problems does not consist in public action but in the dialectical rotations of his brain."