In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

I am nothing and should be everything.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

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

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry