"The more the worker expends himself in work, the more powerful becomes the world of objects which he creates in face of himself, the poorer he himself becomes, the less world he has as his own."

"The demand for a free press is essentially a demand for the freedom of public opinion."

"For him, the solution of present-day problems does not consist in public action but in the dialectical rotations of his brain."

"The worker has nothing to lose but his chains. He has a world to win."

"Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list – the common seed within which all these f…"