American politics consist of two bands of baron robbers, alternately taking possession of and plundering the treasury of the state.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Workingmen of all countries unite!

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.