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

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

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

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.