"[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself."
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"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
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"There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary."
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"The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future."
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"The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison."
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"The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money."
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"...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 itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism."
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"The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom."
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"Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce."
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"Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents."
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"The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win."
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"A people without a heritage are easily persuaded."
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"There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life."
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"May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'."
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"In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred."
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"Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy."
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"The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated."
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"Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth."
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"Music is the mirror of reality."
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"Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained."
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