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.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains!

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.