"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."

"Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."

"A people without character, without any historical initiative, a people that has only been used as a tool by other nations, will achieve its freedom only by becoming a tool for a revolution that will …"

"The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, in…"

"The commodity is a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social character of men's labour appears to them as an objective character stamped upon the product of that labour."