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- ...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old…
- You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society…
- Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and…
- In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each…
- Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than…
- Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its…
- The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.
- There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes…
- 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…
- ...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts…
- 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…
- In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general…
- What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development…
- Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
- England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the…
- In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
- In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
- Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
- In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its…
- Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
- 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…
- 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…
- If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond…
- Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of…
- Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on…
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- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi