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

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.

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.

Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

I’ve only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It’s the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues.

I know my body. I know my mind. I know what I can do.

What India needs is ease of doing business and inherent faith in the ability of Indians to catch an opportunity.

I found by deeper breathing, going into the cold, thinking about it, dealing with it; getting the conviction that my ability to breathe deeper is making connections with my body.

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.