"The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere."

"The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine, the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital."

"Religion is nothing but the fantastic reflection in men's minds of those external forces which control their daily life, a reflection in which earthly forces assume the form of supernatural forces."

"The demand for the liberation of the oppressed nation is nothing but the consistent expression of the struggle against oppression in general."

"In a communist society, the only way in which the family can remain in existence is by ceasing to be the economic unit of society."