As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Religion is the balm of the people.