“Religion is the opium of the people.”

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“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor.”

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“Democracy is the road to socialism.”

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“Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.”

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“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

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“Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery at the opposite pole.”

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“Capitalist production develops technology and combines various processes into a social whole only by sapping the original sources of all wealth — the soil and the worker.”

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“The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces.”

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