Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

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.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

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.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.