It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

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

By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.