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

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

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.