Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.

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

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

Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.