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

The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.