There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.