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- If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
- We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of…
- The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
- As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical…
- From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.
- The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
- Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e.,…
- Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.
- We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
- The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working…
- Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
- Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist…
- The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to…
- The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got
- But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention…
- The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the…
- The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.
- A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells.…
- Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.
- England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the…
- There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended,…
- Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.
- Ideas do not exist separately from language.
- Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or…
- Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.
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