“All I know is I'm not a Marxist.”
“Religion is the opium of the masses.”
“Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.”
“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.”
“A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of communism.”
“Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.”
“The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.”
“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”
“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”
“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
“While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.”
“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
“The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.”
“The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
“Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.”
“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”
“Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.”
“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”
“Capital is dead labor, that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”
“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”
“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!”
“All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.”
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
“From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.”
“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its ''great intellects.''”
“I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.”
“The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”