"The commodity is a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social character of men's labour appears to them as an objective character stamped upon the product of that labour."

"The worker is the owner of his labour power, but he cannot sell it without selling himself."

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."

"Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included)."

"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…"