In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.