"I am humorous, but the law bids me write seriously. I am audacious, but the law commands that my style be modest."

"As a teacher of German philosophy he also had the advantage over me that he himself understood nothing about it."

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."

"The capitalist system is full of contradictions, and it will eventually collapse."

"The worker has an interest in maintaining his existence as a worker, but not in maintaining his existence as a commodity."