Quotes About Progress

Jeder Schritt wirklicher Bewegung ist wichtiger als ein Dutzend Programme.

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

Nothing can emerge at the end of the process which did not appear as a presupposition and precondition at the beginning.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

La historia de toda sociedad se resume en el desarrollo de los antagonismos de 1as clases, antagonismos que han revestido diversas formas en las distintas épocas. Pero cualquiera que haya sido la forma revestida por esos antagonismos, la explotación de una parte de la sociedad por la otra es un hecho común a todos los siglos anteriores.

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

At the same pace that mankind masters nature, man seems to become enslaved to other men or to his own infamy. Even the pure light of science seems unable to shine but on the dark background of ignorance. All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force. - 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.

When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch, the market of the world and the modern powers of production, and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and stultifying human life into a material force.

The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labour of men superseded by that of women.

The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. … what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?

La burguesía … ha creado fuerzas productivas mucho más colosales y masivas que todas las pasadas generaciones juntas, …¿Cuál de los pasados siglos pudo sospechar siquiera que en el seno del trabajo social dormitasen tantas y tales fuerzas productivas?

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.

capital collapses because it cannot exist alongside shared knowledge

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

Tarihte ne olduysa öyle olmas? gerektiÄŸi, baÅŸka türlü olamayaca?? için öyle olmuÅŸtur

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.