They don't know it, but they are doing it.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

I am nothing but I must be everything.

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.