"The more the worker spends himself, the more powerful becomes the alien world of objects which he creates over and against himself, the poorer he himself — his inner world — becomes, the less belongs …"

"To be radical is to grasp things by the root."

"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."

"Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of whole cloth; he does not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the p…"