Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

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.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.