Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.