Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state