The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery