The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.