“Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.”

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else’s freedom to express themselves.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.