Life Is The Mode Of Action Of

We Find Two Great Gangs Of Political Speculators, Who Alternately Take Possession Of The State Power And Exploit It By The Most Corrupt Ends -- The Nation Is Powerless Against These Two Great Cartels Of Politicians Who Are Ostensibly Its Servants, But In Reality Dominate And Plunder It.

I Have Learned More [from Balzac] Than From All The Professional Historians, Economists, And Statisticians Put Together.

By The Same Right Under Which France Took Flanders, Lorraine And Alsace, And Will Sooner Or Later Take Belgium — By That Same Right Germany Takes Over Schleswig; It Is The Right Of Civilisation As Against Barbarism, Of Progress As Against Stability.

People Think They Have Taken Quite An Extraordinarily Bold Step Forward When They Have Rid Themselves Of Belief In Hereditary Monarchy And Swear By The Democratic Republic. In Reality, However, The State Is Nothing But A Machine For The Oppression Of One Class By Another, And Indeed In The Democratic Republic No Less Than In The Monarchy.

Hegel Was The First To State Correctly The Relation Between Freedom And Necessity. To Him, Freedom Is The Insight Into Necessity.