A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country and no people have struggled so strenuously for their emancipation than Sicily and the Sicilians.

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.