Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.
All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.
Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.
The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.
A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.