"The proletariat needs the state, not for freedom, but for the suppression of its opponents."

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

"Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor."

"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."

"Under no circumstances does Marx sanction the use of violence to achieve his aims. He was a man of peace."