Quotes About Transformation

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

In 1642 the modern world was born.

The new era differs from the old chiefly in that the lash begins to imagine itself possessed of genius.

The bloody mire of Mongolian slavery, not the rude glory of the Norman epoch, forms the cradle of Muscovy, and modern Russia is but a metamorphosis of Muscovy.

M–L is the characteristic moment of the transformation of money capital into productive capital, for it is the essential condition without which the value advanced in the money form cannot really be transformed into capital, into value-producing surplus-value. M–mp is necessary only in order to realize the mass of labour bought by way of M–L.

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

Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating."[164] If the transformation of merchants' money into capital is to be explained otherwise than by the producers being simply cheated, a long series of intermediate steps would be necessary, which, at present, when the simple circulation of commodities forms our only assumption, are entirely wanting.

philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point however, is to change it

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

All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, 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.

It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.

One must force the frozen circumstances to dance, by singing to them their own melody.

they see in poverty nothing but poverty, without seeing in it the revolutionary, subversive side, which will overthrow the old society.

Ist die Konstruktion der Zukunft und das Fertigwerden für alle Zeiten nicht unsere Sache, so ist desto gewisser, was wir gegenwärtig zu vollbringen haben, ich meine die rücksichtslose Kritik alles Bestehenden, rücksichtslos sowohl in dem Sinne, daß die Kritik sich nicht vor ihren Resultaten fürchtet und ebensowenig vor dem Konflikte mit den vorhandenen Mächten.

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

la même importance que la loi de la transformation de l'énergie pour les sciences naturelles, lui fournit ici également la clé pour la compréhension de l'histoire de la deuxième République française.

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

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

Lorsque le véritable but fut atteint, c'est-à-dire lorsque fut réalisée la transformation bourgeoise de la société anglaise, Locke évinça Habacuc.

La historia de todas las sociedades, hasta nuestros días es la historia de la lucha de las clases. Hombres libres y esclavos, patricios y plebeyos, señores y siervos, maestros y oficiales, en una palabra: opresores y oprimidos se enfrentaron siempre, mantuvieron una lucha constante, velada unas veces y otras franca y abierta, lucha que terminó siempre con la transformación revolucionaria de toda la sociedad o el hundimiento de las clases en pugna.

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)

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

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.