People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.