"A nation cannot be free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations."

"It is precisely the alteration of nature by men, not solely nature as such, which is the most essential and immediate basis of human thought."

"The first act by virtue of which the state really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of society — the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society — this first a…"

"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."

"The more the economic conditions of society are subjected to the control of the individual, the more will the individual be free."