I am nothing but I must be everything.

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

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

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