The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.