"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…"

"The emancipation of the workers is the task of the workers themselves."

"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 production of commodities is a social process, and the relations between producers are not directly social, but appear as relations between things."

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