Friedrich Engels — "The English working class is nothing but a mass of isolated, mutually hostile at…"

"The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere."

"The world is not to be interpreted, but to be changed."

"The English working class is, after all, only a branch of the German working class."

"Religion is nothing but the fantastic reflection in men's minds of those external forces which control their daily life, a reflection in which earthly forces assume the form of supernatural forces."

"The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air."