"I am not a Marxist."

"Religion is the opium of the masses."

"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs."

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

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

"The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope."

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

"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."

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

"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."

"Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers."

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."

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

"Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."

"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor."

"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth -- the soil and the labourer."

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people."

"The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together."

"In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end."