"The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, and the greater is the saving of your alienated being."

"The worker becomes a commodity all the more vile as he creates more goods. The more the world of things increases in value, the more the world of men devalues itself; one is a direct result of the oth…"

"As a teacher of German philosophy he also had the advantage over me that he himself understood nothing about it."

"The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre, go to the ball, go to the pub, think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save and the greater becomes your treasure which nei…"

"The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates."