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.

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

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

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.