Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society |
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. |
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. |
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list / the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation. |
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. |
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity |
Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. |
Democracy is the road to socialism. |
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. |
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. |
Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one |
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. |
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs |
From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need |
From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again. |