Quotes About Society

buy her entry into normal society, but she hadn't realized what that society was like.

political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth

Anyone who does not want communism-and none of us do-should take socialism seriously.

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world... of its proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man's labour and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.

Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.

Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society. But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — bourgeoisie and proletariat.

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions

The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations as boni patres familias [good heads of the household].

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

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