But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.