According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Know that love is truly timeless.

It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have life!

I couldn't help thinking how well Cain had prospered after killing his brother: he founded the first city--and, although we don't like to talk about it all that much, we are all his children.

If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there.

No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.

Let us ask the Lord for this grace: that our hearts become free and filled with light, so that we can rejoice as children of God.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.