Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

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

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.

The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.