The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Religion is the opiate of the people.

Men make their own history

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.

In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

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

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production