The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.
Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
Imperialism is da woist thing I ever hoid!
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.
If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.
The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
Money is the alienated essence of man’s work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list – the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.
I hate money and Jews.
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.
I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.
The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man’s chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.
And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution – what awaits them?
Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it.
In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.