“Ignorance never yet helped anybody.”

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Surround yourself with people who make you happy.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

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

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.

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.

Your favourite virtue – Simplicity.

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality have to adjust itself.

Here I am spitting up roses in your name I hope you choke on the thorns.

I don’t wanna settle scores I’m just no longer yours.

You ask me questions that you don’t want to know the answer to.

Even my tears fall for you.

I miss you even in my dreams.

Cracks in the glass words we couldn’t invite in yet had to break senseless.

There came that day in mid-July I never saw it coming I don’t know why house empty and you gone you imprinted my heart with that Leonard Cohen song.

Our body is our home and how I saw you treat your home I should have known that’s how you would treat my body.