1. The worst fight is the one that is not done.

2. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

3. History is not and does not do anything. Who is and does is man.

4. The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he leaves for himself.

5. Philosophers have done nothing more than interpret the world in different ways, but the point is to transform it.

6. The bourgeois family is based on capital, on private profit.

7. Everything solid melts into thin air.

8. Talking and doing are different things, rather antagonistic.

9. If you love without awakening love, that is, if your love, as love, does not produce reciprocal love, if through a vital exteriorization as a loving man you do not become a loved man, your love is impotent, a misfortune.

10. The theory of communism can be reduced to one sentence: abolish all private property.

11. Nobody fights freedom; At best, it combats the freedom of others. Freedom has always existed, but sometimes as a privilege for some, other times as a right for all.

12. Political power is simply the organized power of one class to oppress another.

13. The worker needs respect more than bread.

14. The entire history of human society, up to the present, is a history of class struggle.

15. It is not the conscience of man that determines his being, but, on the contrary, the social being is what determines his conscience.

16. The bourgeoisie not only wrought its own destruction, but also its own gravedigger: the proletariat.

17. The State is an organ of class domination, an organ of oppression of one class by another, it is the creation of the order that legalizes and strengthens this oppression, cushioning the class struggle.

18. The way things are presented is not the way they are; and if things were as they appear, the entire science would be superfluous.

19. Capitalist production is not simply the production of commodities: it is essentially the production of surplus value.

20. We need another education for another society and another society for another education.

21. Each piece of money is a mere currency or circulation fund, only to the extent that it really circulates.

22. Proletarians of all countries, unite.

23. The workers have nothing to lose except their chains. They have a world to win.

24. The devaluation of the human world grows in direct proportion to the valuation of the world of things.

25. Human beings make their own history, albeit under circumstances influenced by the past.

26. Darwin’s book is very important and serves as a basis for the class struggle in history.

27. The reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable way.

28. For us, communism is not a state that must be implanted, an ideal to which reality must be subjected. We call communism the real movement that annuls and surpasses the current state of affairs.

29. Pauperism is the hospital of the army of work.

30. Man is the supreme being for man.

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

32. You are terrified that we want to abolish private property, as if already within your current society, private property was not abolished for nine tenths of the population.

33. The mode of production of material life conditions the processes of social, political and spiritual life in general.

34. The fight against religion is the fight against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

35. Perhaps no other country, except Turkey, is so little known and so poorly judged by the rest of Europe as Spain.

36. Today, the public power becomes, purely and simply, the Board of Directors that governs the collective interests of the bourgeois class.

37. Gold circulates because it has value, but paper money has value because it circulates.

38. Hegel says somewhere that all the great events and characters of universal history appear, as it were, twice. But he forgot to add: once as tragedy and once as farce.

39. The dispossessed have a world to win.

40. You believe in love as divine property because you love. You believe that God is wise and kind because you do not know something higher in yourself than goodness and intelligence and you believe that God exists, that he is a being, because you yourself exist and are a being.

41. Man is a being who will only be realized, who will only be himself, in the revolutionary society.

42. Religious misery is, on the one hand, the expression of real misery and, on the other, the protest against it.

43. Just as in religion man is dominated by the product of his own head, in capitalist production he is dominated by the product of his own hand.

44. Religious alienation is a second degree alienation. It expresses in the form of a justifying theory the absurdity that gives rise to it.

45. The engine of history is the class struggle.

46. ​​Men contract certain relations of production that correspond to a certain phase of development of their material productive forces.

47. Religious feeling is also a social product.

48. What contemplative materialism reaches the most, that is, the materialism that does not conceive sensoriality as a practical activity, is to contemplate individuals within civil society.

49. The executive of the modern State is nothing more than a committee for the administration of the affairs of the bourgeoisie.

50. Communism does not deprive anyone of the power to appropriate social products; the only thing it does not admit is the power to usurp the work of others through this appropriation.

51. Theologians establish two classes of religions. Every religion other than his own is an invention of men, while his own is an emanation of God.

52. As far as I am concerned, I do not have the merit of having discovered the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them.

53. Religion, as an ideological echo, is the “inverted consciousness of an inverted world.

54. No social formation disappears before all the productive forces that fit within it are developed.

55. Any criticism inspired by scientific judgment is welcome.

56. The institutions of Feudalism are artificial institutions; those of the bourgeoisie, natural.

57. With due satisfaction we have witnessed the defeat of Mexico against the United States, this represents a step forward.

58. In these times of revolutionary crisis it is precisely when the spirits of the past fearfully conjure to their aid, they borrow their names, their war slogans, their clothing, in order, with this disguise of venerable old age and this borrowed language, to represent the new world history scene

59. Bourgeois relations of production are the last antagonistic form of the social process of production.

60. Economists have a unique way of proceeding. For them there are no more than two kinds of institutions, the artificial and the natural.

61. Humanity always proposes only the objectives that it can achieve, because, looking at things well, we always see that these objectives only emerge when the material conditions for their realization are already given or, at least, are being developed.

62. When the productive forces grow and the springs of collective wealth flow at full flow, only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be totally surpassed.

63. The masses of the United States are more agile.

64. All criticism begins with criticism of religion.

65. My first work, undertaken to resolve the doubts that assailed me, was a critical review of the Hegelian philosophy of Law.

66. The dominant ideas of an era were always only the ideas of a ruling class.

67. Long before me, some bourgeois historians had already exposed the historical development of this class struggle and some bourgeois economists their economic anatomy.

68. The tradition of all dead generations oppresses the brain of the living like a nightmare.

69. We do not start from what men say, think, or imagine, to reach men of flesh and blood.

70. The bourgeoisie produces, above all, its own gravediggers. Its collapse and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

71. My barn has burned down. Now I can see the moon.

72. The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

73. The worker puts his life in the object, but from then on it no longer belongs to him, but to the object.

74. Religion brings imaginary or fantastic satisfactions that divert any rational effort to find real satisfactions.

75. The capitalist system does not need cultivated individuals, only men trained in an ultra-specific field who adhere to the production scheme without questioning it.

76. Used as an instrument by all parties, it is not surprising that the Spanish army took power into its own hands for some time.

77. A specter runs through Europe, the specter of communism.

78. Capital is dead work that, like vampires, lives only by sucking up living work, and lives longer the more work it sucks.

79. And society will be able to write on its flags: From each, according to their abilities; to each according to their needs!

80. It is easy to be heroic and generous at a certain moment, what is difficult is to be faithful and constant.

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81. Work is essentially the activity lacking freedom, inhuman and asocial, whose condition and whose result is private property.

82. Christianity imparts to men a double life and offers the imaginary joys of heaven as a solace for the real miseries of this life.

83. In our society those who work do not acquire and those who acquire do not work.

84. Religion is the groan of the oppressed.

85. The entire history of human society, up to the present, is a history of class struggles. Free and slaves, patricians and commoners, barons and serfs, masters and officers; in a word, oppressors and oppressed.

86. The last phase of a world historical figure is often comical. History follows this path so that humanity can joyfully bid farewell to its past.

87. In order to cultivate spiritually with greater freedom, a people needs to be exempt from the slavery of their own bodily needs, no longer being a servant of the body.

88. Pauperism is the hospital of the army of work.

89. In the pre-capitalist stages of society, commerce governs industry. In modern society, the opposite is the case.

90. The further back we go in history, the more the individual appears – and therefore also the producing individual.

91. Undoubtedly, the will of the capitalist is to pocket as much as possible.

92. Luxury is the opposite of what is naturally necessary.

93. The general tendency of capitalist production is not to raise the average level of wages, but, on the contrary, to lower it, that is, to push the value of labor more or less to its minimum limit.

94. What does the history of thought show if not that intellectual production is transformed with material production?

95. Money is the starting point and the end point of any valorization process.

96. Without the presence of the class struggle, it would be difficult to justify the existence of trade unions.

97. The workers must, in certain circumstances, unite and fight for an increase in their wages.

98. Capital is not a personal force; it is a social force.

99. The rich will do nothing for the poor, other than lower their backs.

100. Abolish the exploitation of man by man and you will have abolished the exploitation of one nation by another.