"For the bureaucrat, the world is a..." - Quote by Karl Marx

“The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.”

“In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.”

“In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.”

“There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.”

“The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.”

“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.”

“It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.”

“No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.”

“I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.”