Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

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

Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.