 The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. |
| Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. |
| The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. |
| Revolutions are the locomotives of history. |
| 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 oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. |
| In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. |
| Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! |
| The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. |
| While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. |
| 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. |
| Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. |
| Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. |
| The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. |
| On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. |
| From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. |
| History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. |
| 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. |
| Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. |
