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Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.
Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.
The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value .
Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.
The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.
The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.
In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.
There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.
The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got
The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.
Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.
It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.
[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.
The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.
Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it
The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.
The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.