“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

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

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

Don’t forget your history nor your destiny.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Well behaved women do not make history.

Study the past if you would define the future.

Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.