The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

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

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.