Communist Manifesto Quotations

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

Men make their own history

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.