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 Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.