Quotes About Society

The devaluation of the world of men is in direct proportion to the increasing value of the world of things.

Az biraz tarih bilen herkes büyük sosyal devrimlerin kad?nlar?n kat?l?m? olmadan gerçekleÅŸemeyeceÄŸini bilir. Toplumsal geliÅŸim bizzat daha güzel olan bu cinsiyetin (çirkinler dahil) toplumsal konumuna bak?larak ölçülebilir.

In every stock jobbing swindle every one 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. Apres moi le déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation. Hence capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society.

A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital.

the forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present

T]he various stages and interests are never completely overcome, but only subordinated to the prevailing interest and trail along beside the latter for centuries afterwards.

They do not signify that tomorrow a miracle will happen. They show that, within the ruling-classes themselves, a foreboding is dawning, that the present society is no solid crystal, but an organism capable of change, and is constantly changing.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. It is itself an economic power.

That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine.

Die Geschichte ist die wahre Naturgeschichte des Menschen.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Democracy is the road to Socialism.

The proletarians cannot become masters of the productive forces of society, except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and thereby also every other previous mode of appropriation.

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population

Whereas in the earlier forms of the family men never lacked women, but, on the contrary, had too many rather than too few, women had now become scarce and highly sought after. Hence it is with the pairing marriage that there begins the capture and purchase of women-wide-spread symptoms, but no more than symptoms, of the much deeper change that had occurred.

It is not social consciousness that determines social being, but social being that determines social consciousness.

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.

The history of all hitherto existing society2 is the history of class struggles.

has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest

Para cultivarse espiritualmente con mayor libertad, un pueblo necesita estar exento de la esclavitud de sus propias necesidades corporales, no ser ya siervo del cuerpo.

O casamento burguês é, na realidade, um sistema de esposas em comum, portanto, quando muito, poder-se-ia censurar aos comunistas por desejarem introduzir um sistema abertamente legalizado de amor livre, em substituição a um hipocritamente escondido.

La société bourgeoise moderne, élevée sur les ruines de la société féodale, n'a pas aboli les antagonismes de classes. Elle n'a fait que substituer aux anciennes de nouvelles classes, de nouvelles conditions d'oppression, de nouvelles formes de lutte.

Der soziale Fortschritt kann an der sozialen Stellung des schönen Geschlechts gemessen werden, einschließlich der hässlichen Frauen.