It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.
A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. . . . What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. . Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man -- and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.
All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and for eternity.
You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.
Nothing is the same. I don't have one emotion that's the same. Everything is totally different; I'm a different person, the whole industry is totally different from when Glassjaw was first trying to approach it and put a record out.