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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. (Karl Marx)
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. View quote
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. View quote
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. View quote
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. View quote
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science. View quote
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. View quote
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. View quote
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. View quote
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. View quote
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. (Karl Marx)
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. View quote
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The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. View quote
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. View quote
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. View quote
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. View quote
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The only possible solution which will preserve Germany's honor and Germany's interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia. View quote
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What do you think of the aspect of the money market? ... This time, by the by, the thing has assumed European dimensions such as have never been seen before, and I don't suppose we'll be able to spend much longer here merely as spectators. The very fact that I've at last got round to setting up house again and sending for my books seems to me to prove that the 'mobilisation' of our persons is. View quote
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We are obviously heading for revolution-something I have never once doubted since 1850. The first act will include a by no means gratifying rehash of the stupidities of '48-'49. However, that's how world history runs its course, and one has to take it as one finds it. View quote
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Despite all its shortcomings, this Constitution looms against the background of Russo-Prusso-Austrian barbarism as the only work of liberty which Eastern Europe has ever created independently, and it emerged exclusively from the privileged class, from the nobility. The history of the world has never seen another example of such nobility of the nobility. View quote
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For the world to become philosophic amounts to philosophy's becoming world-order reality; and it means that philosophy, at the same time that it is realized, disappears. (Karl Marx)
Money, then, appears as this overturning power both against the individual and against the bonds of society, etc.,which claim to be essences in themselves. It transforms fidelity into infidelity, love into hate, hate into love, virtue into vice, vice into virtue, servant into master, master into servant, idiocy into intelligence and intelligence into idiocy. View quote
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It is in fact not the consciousness dominating life but the very life dominating consciousness. View quote
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The devil take this wrong arithmetic. But never mind. View quote
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Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting mules etc. These are products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature, or of human participation in nature. They are organs of the human brain, created by the human hand; the power of knowledge, objectified. The development of fixed capital indicates to what degree general social knowledge has become a direct force of production, and to what degree, hence, the conditions of the process of social life itself have come under the control of the general intellect and been transformed in accordance with it. View quote
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