“Follow your own path, no matter what people say.”

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.

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.

No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

I know what I want and it gets in my way. I know I’m not easy.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

Over time, we as humans have developed a different attitude towards nature and we’ve forgotten about our inner power.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

They please the world most, who please Christ least.