If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

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

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia