The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ― Karl Marx

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

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Democracy is the road to socialism.

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History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

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A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

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Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

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I am a machine condemned to devour books. ― Karl Marx

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There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

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Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

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

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