“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”

This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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.

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

I’m unconscious while I’m acting. I live the role and am not myself.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.