The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

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

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.