Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

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

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.