A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

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.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.