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

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.

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.

Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

Class is more important than a game.

Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.

But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That’s what I love doing.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments – the American people really don’t care.

Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.