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"A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish."

"A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism."

"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."


"Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself."

"Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included)."

"Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth."

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

"History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends."

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

"I am nothing but I must be everything."

"If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist."

"Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human."

"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please."

"Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same."

"Neither of us cares a straw for popularity."

"No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need."

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people."

"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering."

"The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money."

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

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

"The importunity of the fellow is also niggerlike."

"The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope."

"The object of art — like every other product — creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty."

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."

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

"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win."

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."

"The uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat."

"The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself."

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

"To be radical is to grasp things by the root."

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"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society."

"A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people."

"Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers."


"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."

"Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as governing principle."

"Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class."

"For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights."

"Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. "Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence."

"History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them."

"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity."

"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."

"I was born a Hindu but will not die one."

"If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it."

"In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development."

"Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them."

"Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people."

"It was not enough that India should get Swaraj. It was more important in whose hands the Swaraj would be."

"Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered."

"Life should be great rather than long."

"Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die."

"Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government."

"Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act."

"So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you."

"The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends."

"The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India."

"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."

"We are Indians, firstly and lastly."

"We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights."

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