“Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.”

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

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

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

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

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

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.

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

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

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.

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

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.