“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

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.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

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.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

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.

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

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.

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

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.

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.

When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

Great companies are built on great products.

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

If you don’t enjoy it, don’t do it. You must love what you do.

As you reach your goals set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.