For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

The end was contained in the beginning.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.