Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. "

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

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

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

History Repeats Itself

" 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. "

" Democracy is the road to socialism. "

" Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "