"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."

"Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it – when it exists for us as capital, or when it is directly possessed, eaten, drunk, worn, inhabited, etc.…"

"The meaning of history is the progress of humanity toward freedom and self-consciousness."

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

"Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests."