"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."
"Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs."
"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."
"Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases."
"Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state."
"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."
"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs."
"If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist."
"For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him."
"Religion is the opium of the masses."
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."
"Democracy is the road to socialism."
"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."
"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."
"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism."
"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."
"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."
"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."
"A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties."
