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

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

" 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. "

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

" Religion is the opium of the masses. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

History Repeats Itself

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. "

" 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. "

" The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. "

" Democracy is the road to socialism. "