What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

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

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.