Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

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

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.