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

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.