» The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
» Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
» Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
» A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of communism.
» All I know is I'm not a Marxist.
» In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
» The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
» The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
» Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
» In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.