Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power.

Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.