An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.