"In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse."
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"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."
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"If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist."
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"Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis."
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"The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor."
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"The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed."
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"Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed."
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"What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer."
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"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 lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived."
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"The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."
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"Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production."
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"I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history."
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"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."
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"Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not."
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"The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent."
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"Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds."
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"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 but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power."
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"The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo."
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"One capitalist always kills many."
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"An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital."
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