“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”
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“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
HistoryAll Quotes by Karl Marx
“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”
Men“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”
Great“Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.”
Science“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 banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Society“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
History“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
Freedom“The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.”
Science“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
Peace“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.”
Time“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.”
Great“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
Religion“History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”
History“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
Society“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
History“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
Men“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”
Money“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 in the midst of society.”
Society“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.”
Good“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”
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