"The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at."

"Has a real taler any existence except in the imagination, if only in the general or rather common imagination of man? Bring paper money into a country where this use of paper is unknown, and everyone …"

"The worker has an even greater need for capital than capital has for the worker."

"The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy."

"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."