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

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

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

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