Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Moments are the elements of profit

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.