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

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

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.