It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.