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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Religion is the opium of the masses. "

" 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. "

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

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

History Repeats Itself

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "