In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

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

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

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.