The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.