Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

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

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.