A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Hegel has remarked somewhere that history repeats itself. He forgot, however, to mention: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.
I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.
Ideas do not exist separately from language.
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.
It is clear that the arm of criticism cannot replace the criticism of arms. Material force can only be overthrown by material force, but theory itself becomes a material force when it has seized the masses.
Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.
Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by... the sense of having.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. 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.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Something that is merely negative creates nothing.
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
The Irish famine of 1846 killed more than one million people, but it killed poor devils only. To the wealth of the country it did not the slightest damage.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
The religious world is but the reflex of the real world.
To be radical is to grasp things by the root. But for man the root is man himself.
What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.
Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.
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