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"Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."
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"When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion."
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"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."
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"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."
Business
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour."
Politics
"The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together."
Business
"The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money."
Writing
"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."
Writing
"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
Philosophy
"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."
Freedom
"Religion is the opium of the masses."
Contentment
"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."
Reflection
"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."
Creativity
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