There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

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.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.