The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.