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

Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.

The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

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

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.