In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

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

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

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

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

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

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

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.