The best thing for rich people to do is become Batman.
Moments are the elements of profit.
Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.
The way people get their living determines their social outlook.
To be radical is to grasp things by the root.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital, and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it.
Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.
The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism.
When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.
The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.
All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy.
Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.
The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state.
Go on, get out – last words are for fools who haven’t said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.
History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.
Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.
Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.