"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."

"Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another."

"The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and size."

"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 last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope."