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[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality ... [He was] Caesar himself.

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman.

The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much

A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.10

A machine condemned to devour books and then throw them , in a changed form , on the dunghill of history .

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

Religion is the balm of the people.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.

Communism begins where atheism begins ...

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers ... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Democracy is the road to Socialism.

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.

I hate money and Jews.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

The English Established Church ... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

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

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

Hic Rhodus, hic salta!
Here is the rose, here dance!

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Ideas do not exist separately from language.

Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

Nobody - not even "a musician of the future" - can live upon future products.

Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value .

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy