History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.