“You have nothing to lose but the chains of reality.”

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workingmen of all countries unite!”

“He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.”

“The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

“When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose.”

“To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don’t take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don’t take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it.”