Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

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

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.