The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.