"A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism."

"History is thorough and goes through many phases when carrying an old form to the grave. The last phase of a world-historical form is its comedy."

"The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at."

"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."

"The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future."