History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.