Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

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

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the German working class. German predominance would also transfer the center of gravity of the workers' movement in Western Europe from France to Germany, and one has only to compare the movement in the two countries from 1866 until now to see that the German working class is superior to the French both theoretically and organizationally.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

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.