Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

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

We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.