"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."

"The proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself the nation."

"The worker is the owner of his labour power, but he cannot sell it without selling himself."

"The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, in…"

"The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living."