History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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.
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 production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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.
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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.
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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.
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