“Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.”

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.

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.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

I think our system is being polluted by money.

Money can’t buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.

I’m living proof being born poor doesn’t mean you can’t find financial success.

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.