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1. I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.
2. From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
3. People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
4. The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
5. Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
6. Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give — such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.
7. Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
8. The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
9. Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
10. I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
11. He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
12. I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
13. Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
14. The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
15. The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
16. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
17. I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
18. From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.
19. The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
20. The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation — which speculates upon the labor of people — will always find the means for its existence.