Occupation: Philosopher Birth: May 5, 1818 Death: March 14, 1883
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs..
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property..
Communism begins where atheism begins..
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror..
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at t….
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abo….
My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism..
Democracy is the road to socialism..
Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it..
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity..
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled..
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions..
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion..
A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism..
When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer..
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life..
Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded..
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people..
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded..
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism..