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 stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

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!

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

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.