The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.