"By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week."

"Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men."

"The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society."

"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."

"Moments are the elements of profit."

"In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

"He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart."

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."

"Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The products of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations."

"Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible."

"One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie."

"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."

"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."

"The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite."

"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."

"Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself."

"To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the capitalist, the larger will be the crumbs which fall to him, the greater will be the number of workers than can be called into existence, the more can the mass of slaves dependent upon capital be increased."

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."

"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is just what we intend."

"Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand."

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."

"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."

"The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money."

"No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind."

"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."

"The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together."

"Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence."

"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."

"Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it."

"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour."

"Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells."