The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains.
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
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!
I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.
Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit .
Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough...
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.