I am a machine condemned to devour books.
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.
Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
I am nothing but I must be everything.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.
Experience praises the happiest the one who has made the most people happy.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.
Communism begins where atheism begins...
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.