Politics Quotes

"The bourgeoisie have created a world after their own image"

"A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of communism"

"The class struggle is the immediate motive force of history"

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in a single sentence: abolish private property"

"The weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of weapons"

"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established; it is the real movement"

"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production"

"The need of a constantly expanding market chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe"

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas"

"Industry had created the world after its own image"

"Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others"

"The state is merely an executive committee of the ruling class"

"Universal suffrage is reached, the workers will organize to secure the objects of their struggle"

"Competition is the expression of the antagonistic character of capitalist production"

"To make people love their servitude is the task of the propagandist"

"Every society must produce within itself the means to overcome its own contradictions"

"The reorganization of society must be based on scientific principles, not political ideology alone."

"Politics fails when divorced from scientific understanding of social organization."

"Political authority derives legitimacy from serving the collective good, not from tradition or force."

"The demand for liberty is the demand to give all or nearly all their share of the sovereign power of the state."

"Liberty is not a thing for the multitude; they are unfit for it."

"To educate the people is the most radical political reform."

"The state must be grounded in human nature, not in abstract principles."

"Political freedom is meaningless without economic justice."

"The state is the realization of freedom in the world."

"The state is not something to be feared but to be realized."

"The state is the ethical whole."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to stay out of prison."

"It is the duty of government to make all citizens happy."