The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.

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 true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Men make their own history