Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

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.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.