1. “What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, an what emerges is something that no one willed.”
2. “From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.”
3. “All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.”
4. “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
5. “The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.”
6. “The free development of each is the conition for the free development of all.”
7. “A change in Quantity also entails a change in Quality.”
8. “Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.”
9. “Freedom is the recognition of necessity.”
10. “It is quite obvious that all legislation is calculated to protect those that possess property against those who do not.”
11. “Some laws of state aimed at urbing crime are even more criminal.”
12. “Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.”
13. “Don’t forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.”
14. “In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.”
15. “Life is a mode of action of proteins.”
16. “The state is not abolished, it withers away.”
17. “No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.”
18. “Without analysis, no synthesis.”
19. “It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.”
20. “Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.”
21. “If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.”
22. “In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.”
23. “Everything must justify its existence before the judgement seat of Reason, or give up existence.”
24. “The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.”
25. “It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.”
