Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.