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

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

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

" 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. "

" The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. "

" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. "