Communism

A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of Communism

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen

Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently

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

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine

My favorite book? You’ll laugh: the bible

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State?

One must endure without losing tenderness

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people

Silence is argument carried out by other means

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex

The basic law of capitalism is ’you or I’, not both ’you and I’

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

The proletarians of the world have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!