I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

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.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

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