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.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.