...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

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

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.