Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
Science is magic that works.
Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
The english have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
there is a specter haunting europe, the specter of communism.
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a marxist.
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.