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| Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. | | Uncategorized | |
| The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived. | | Uncategorized | |
| The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. | | Civilization | |
| The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion | | Happiness | |
| The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. | | Uncategorized | |
| The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. | | Uncategorized | |
| The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. | | Uncategorized | |
| The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it | | Change; Philosophy; World | |
| The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia] | | Uncategorized | |
| The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. | | Uncategorized | |
| The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. | | Uncategorized | |
| The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. | | Uncategorized | |
| The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. | | Uncategorized | |
| The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille | | Christianity; Religion | |
