"Truly, it is with fear and trembling that I think about the time
when these sinister iconoclasts will come to power.
With their calloused hands,
they will mercilessly destroy all the marble statues of beauty,
which are so dear to my heart.
They will destroy my laurel groves and plant potatoes there.
The nightingales, these unnecessary singers, will be driven out,
and ah! my book of songs will be used by the spice merchant to make cones,
into which he will shake coffee and tobacco
for the poor old women of the future."
"The more or less obscure leaders of the German Communists
are great logicians,
of whom the most powerful have come out of the school of Hegel.
These doctors of revolution and their mercilessly determined disciples
are the only men in Germany who have life
and it is to them that the future belongs."