All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering. Thus, he declares that accounting and control are the chief things necessary for the organizing and correct functioning of society. . . . Here we have the philosophy of the filing clerk in its full glory.

...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a higher wisdom than that of the average citizen. This is the fundamental difference between freedom and serfdom.

The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.