The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

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.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

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.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.