The earth belonged to all human beings without exception, like the sun and the air; its products ought to be divided between everyone with due regard to their necessities.

It was shameful that man, who only appeared for an instant on this planet--a minute, a second, for his life was no more than this in the life of immensity--should spend this mere breath of existence fighting with his kin, robbing them, excited by the fever of plunder, not even enjoying the majestic calm of a wild beast, which when it has eaten, rests, without ever thinking of doing harm from vanity or avarice.
There ought to be neither rich nor poor--nothing but men.

The only inevitable division must be that between brains more or less highly organised.

But the wise, from the fact of being so, ought to show their greatness, sacrificing themselves for the more simple, without seeking to assist the greatness of their minds by material advantages; for in stomachs there were no categories or ranks.

Everything that exists, even the smallest production that man considers his exclusive work, is the work of the past and present generations.