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

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.

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

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.

In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.