If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?

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

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.

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

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.