Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

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

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

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.