"The product of labour is alienated from the worker; it becomes an alien object, a power independent of the producer."

"Poor Boniface! You are constipated with your holy thoughts and reflections, since you can no longer relieve yourself in speech and writing! O admirable victim of profundity! O pious constipation!"

"Legal relations, as well as forms of state, are to be grasped neither from themselves nor from the so-called general development of the human mind, but rather have their roots in the material conditio…"

"A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties."

"The ruling class, in order to maintain its rule, must constantly revolutionize the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society."