Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society. But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.