"The advance of capitalist production develops a working class, which by education, tradition, and habit, looks upon the requirements of that mode of production as self-evident natural laws."

"If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist."

"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"

"The State is the form in which the individuals of a ruling class assert their common interests, and in which the whole civil society of an epoch is epitomized."

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."