“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.”

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.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

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

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

The war against hunger is truly mankind’s war of liberation.

We stand in solidarity against racism and for racial justice.

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

Being against evil doesn’t make you good.

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.

Nothing can stand against our God. No sickness is too great, no addiction too strong, no enemy too powerful.