The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

Moments are the elements of profit

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.