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" Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. "

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

" If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. "

" The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. "

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

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

" Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. "

" Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "

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

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

" For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. "

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

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