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" 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. "

Karl Marx

Nature

Change

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" Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. "

" The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. "

" Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. "

" A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. "

" Democracy is the road to socialism. "

" The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. "

" Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. "

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Only

Sucks

" The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. "

" From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. "

" 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. "

" There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. "

" 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. "

" The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. "

" The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. "

" Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. "

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Never

Men

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" Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. "

" The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. "