The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.