Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

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

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

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.

Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

Men make their own history