The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.
The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.