...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.