"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 …"

"To be radical is to grasp things by the root."

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."

"This Bonaparte, who constitutes himself chief of the lumpenproletariat, who here alone rediscovers in mass form the interests which he personally pursues, who recognizes in this scum, offal, refuse of…"

"Legal relations, as well as forms of state, are to be grasped neither from themselves nor from the so-called general development of the human mind, but rather have their roots in the material conditio…"