Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

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

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

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

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