There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

Moments are the elements of profit

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.