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

Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.

The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.