If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.

Change is the healthiest way to survive

I'm very much down to earth - just not this earth.

Keep the best, forget the rest.

I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

Think pink but don't wear it

Respect is not creative ... Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of her.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose i'm the happy victim of books

When I was younger I wanted to be a caricaturist. In the end, I’ve become a caricature.

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

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

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

I am nothing but I must be everything.

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!

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!

Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

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

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. [In a letter about the peculiar 'Marxism' which arose in France 1882]

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

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

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

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

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself.

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

Moments are the elements of profit

Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state

If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune.

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 best thing for rich people to do is become Batman

You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)