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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 man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition."

"A people always ends by resembling its shadow."

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."



"And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame,
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!"

"As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place."

"Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."

"But remember, please, the Law by which we live,
We are not built to comprehend a lie,
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive,
If you make a slip in handling us you die!
We are greater than the Peoples or the Kings—
Be humble, as you crawl beneath our rods!—
Our touch can alter all created things,
We are everything on earth—except The Gods!"

"Cities and Thrones and Powers,
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die:
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth,
The Cities rise again."

"Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work."

"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."

"For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high."

"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."

"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade."

"God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Belovèd over all."

"He travels the fastest who travels alone."

"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

"I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me."

"I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob."

"I keep six honest serving-men:
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Where and When
And How and Why and Who."

"I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards."

"If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied."

"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."

"If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same."

"If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it..."

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise."

"If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!"

"It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

"Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end;
Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise,
Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice."

"More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies."

"No easy hope or lies
Shall bring us to our goal,
But iron sacrifice
Of body, will, and soul."

"Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die."

"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears."

"Of all the trees that grow so fair,
Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun,
Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn."

"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!"

"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

"The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible — and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else."

"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,
And every single one of them is right!

"There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,
Or the way of a man with a maid;

"There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this."

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart;
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: “It's clever, but is it Art?”

"We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding."

"When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it—lie down for an aeon or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!"

"When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey."

Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro—
"And what should they know of England who only England know?"

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

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