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.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.