Religion is the opium of the masses.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.