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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. "

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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. "

" Religion is the opium of the masses. "

" Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. "

" The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite. "

" Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. "

" Democracy is the road to socialism. "

" We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. "

" Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. "

" Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. "

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

" Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. "

" History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. "

" Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. "

" 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. "

" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "

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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. "

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

" Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. "

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

" The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. "

" The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. "

" 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. "

" Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. "

" Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. "