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.

You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.

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