In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
One capitalist always kills many.
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.
Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.
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.
Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.
Misery motivates, not utopia.
I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.
There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.
The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much.
Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.
Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.
You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.
To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.
We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.
When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.
The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.