"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…"

"Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."

"It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bo…"

"The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."