Karl Marx — "The modern ancien régime is rather only the comedian of a world order whose true…"

"The development of modern industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above …"

"If you want to be consistent in your aesthetic criticism, then forbid also a too serious and too modest investigation of the truth, for too great seriousness is the most ludicrous thing of all, and to…"

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

"I am humorous, but the law bids me write seriously. I am audacious, but the law commands that my style be modest."

"The more the worker spends himself, the more powerful becomes the alien world of objects which he creates over and against himself, the poorer he himself — his inner world — becomes, the less belongs …"