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.

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

Communism begins where atheism begins.