Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.