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.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

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

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.