Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

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

The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole - besides being an homme d'action [man of action] - that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality.... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London.