German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.

The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be the worst of all historical systems, the greatest evil that had ever befallen mankind. That man was Karl Marx.

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.