“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”

Moments are the elements of profit.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

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.

You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

One day it’s all going to be clear. It’s all going to make sense. You’re going to be able to say, “So that’s why God allowed that in my life!” Until then, God wants you to trust him.

I’m not allowed to get a big head, I’ve still got to do the simple things in life.