Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

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

Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state