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.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

Moments are the elements of profit

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!