"The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air."

"The more the worker expends himself in work, the more powerful becomes the world of objects which he creates in face of himself, the poorer he himself becomes, the less world he has as his own."

"I infected him very much to his detriment with Hegelianism, which, owing to his lack of German, he could not study properly."

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."

"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."