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

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.