Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.