"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and pleb…"

"The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It…"

"Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty a…"

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober sense…"

"A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increas…"

"He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired kna…"

"No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in c…"

"Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionar…"

"Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois …"

"A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance…"