All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.