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

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Misery motivates, not utopia.

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

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

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.