Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

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