Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes. - Karl Marx

Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The products of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations.

When communist workmen associate with one another, theory, propaganda, etc., is their first end. But at the same time, as a result of this association, they acquire a new need - the need for society - and what appears as a means becomes an end. You can observe this practical processing its most splendid results whenever you see French socialist workers together. Such things as smoking, drinking, eating, etc., are no longer means of contact or means that bring together. Company, association, and conversation, which again has society as its end, are enough for them; the brotherhood of man is on mere phase with them, but a fact of life, and the nobility of man shines upon us from their work-hardened bodies.

"هرچه کم‌تر "باشید" و هرچه کم‌تر مظهر زندگی خود باشید، به همان نسبت بیش‌تر "دارید" و زندگی‌تان بیگانه‌تر است. آنچه را اقتصاد از زندگی و انسانیت شما باز‌ستاند با پول و ثروت بازپس می‌دهد."