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

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e., nature is his body -- and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.