The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.

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

In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country and no people have struggled so strenuously for their emancipation than Sicily and the Sicilians.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.