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" 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. "

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" Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. "

" 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 must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. "

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

" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "

" 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. "

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

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

History Repeats Itself

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

" The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. "

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

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

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

" The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. "

" Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science. "

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

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

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

" A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. "

" The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. "

" It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. "

" The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. "

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

" 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. "

" We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. "