The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.