"The worker becomes a commodity all the more vile as he creates more goods. The more the world of things increases in value, the more the world of men devalues itself; one is a direct result of the oth…"

"Has a real taler any existence except in the imagination, if only in the general or rather common imagination of man? Bring paper money into a country where this use of paper is unknown, and everyone …"

"The more the worker expends himself in work, the more powerful becomes the world of objects which he creates in face of himself, the poorer he himself becomes, the less world he has as his own."

"As a teacher of German philosophy he also had the advantage over me that he himself understood nothing about it."

"The worker is poor in proportion to the wealth he produces."