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

People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again.

I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented.

I just don’t think that everybody is disciplined. I think that’s a rare commodity.

Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!

“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

Gold is the most precious of all commodities.

Bitcoins have no dividend or potential future dividend, therefore not like a stock. More like a collectible or commodity.