Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.