Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.