By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.