The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

Moments are the elements of profit

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

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.

The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the German working class. German predominance would also transfer the center of gravity of the workers' movement in Western Europe from France to Germany, and one has only to compare the movement in the two countries from 1866 until now to see that the German working class is superior to the French both theoretically and organizationally.

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.