Karl Marx — "I am humorous, but the law bids me write seriously. I am audacious, but the law …"

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

"Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list – the common seed within which all these f…"

"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…"

"Surplus value is the sole source of profit."

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