The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party