I am nothing and should be everything.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.