The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.