"The bureaucracy takes itself to be the..." - Quote by Karl Marx

“Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)”

“The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.”

“Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.”

“After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.”

“Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people”

“Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.”

“The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.”

“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.”

“There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.”