Quotes About Change

Jeder Schritt wirklicher Bewegung ist wichtiger als ein Dutzend Programme.

every class struggle is a political struggle.

They direct their attacks not against the bourgeois conditions of production, but against the instruments of production themselves; they destroy imported wares that compete with their labour, they smash to pieces machinery, they set factories ablaze, they seek to restore by force the vanished status of the workman of the Middle Ages.

The history of all hitherto existing society8 is the history of class struggles.

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.

That social revolution, it is true, was no novelty invented in 1848. Steam, electricity, and the self-acting mule were revolutionists of a rather more dangerous character than even citizens Barbés, Raspail and Blanqui. - Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper, April 1856

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 tradition of all past generations weighs like an alp upon the brain of the living

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it

The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is, to change it

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.

All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical change consequent upon the change in historical conditions. The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favor of bourgeois property.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes.

Undoubtedly," it will be said, "religious, moral, philosophical, and juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality, philosophy, political science, and law, constantly survived this change.

History is the judge — its executioner, the proletarian. - Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper, April 1856

The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the future.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

La época de la burguesía se caracteriza y distingue de todas las demás por el constante y agitado desplazamiento de la producción, por la conmoción ininterrumpida de todas las relaciones sociales, por una inquietud y una dinámica incesantes.

A machine condemned to devour books and then throw them , in a changed form , on the dunghill of history .

Circumstances make men just as much as men make circumstances.

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

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.