Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

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

Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.