Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.

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

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.