The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.