By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry