"The transformation of money into capital is to be explained on the basis of the laws that regulate the exchange of commodities."

"The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat…"

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

"Under no circumstances does Marx sanction the use of violence to achieve his aims. He was a man of peace."

"The modern ancien régime is rather only the comedian of a world order whose true heroes are dead."