We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

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

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.