The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.

The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of the means of production in the name of societythis is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not abolished. It dies out.

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.