Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.- Karl Marx
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
