While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

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

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

Democracy is the road to socialism.