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

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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. "

" While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. "

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

" Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. "

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

" 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. "

" Democracy is the road to socialism. "

" 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. "

" In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! "

" History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. "

History Repeats Itself

" 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. "

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

" Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. "

" 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. "

" The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. "

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

" The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. "

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