The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.

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.