The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

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.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production