The unity is brought about by force .

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state.

The Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

I am nothing but I must be everything.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.