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.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

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