Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.

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.

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

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.