Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.