The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

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

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much