Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

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

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.