Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality - or as one says sometimes, our "personality package" - for something.

In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.