There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.