History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

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?

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.