An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends – the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
Without analysis, no synthesis.
Don’t forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.