It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

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

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.