If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.