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

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

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

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.