Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

Democracy is the road to socialism.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.