History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.

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.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

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