The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

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 can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.