There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

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

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.

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