I am nothing and should be everything.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

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.

In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man