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| "It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the specter of communism with a manifesto of the party itself." |
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Author: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Work: The Communist Manifesto
Date: 1848
Language: German |
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| "We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange." |
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Author: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Work: The Communist Manifesto
Date: 1848
Language: German |
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| "He has not even a suspicion that the real point aimed at is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production." |
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Author: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Work: The Communist Manifesto
Date: 1848
Language: German |
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| "In all these movements, they bring to the front, as the leading question in each case, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time." |
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Author: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Work: The Communist Manifesto
Date: 1848
Language: German |
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| "The more conscious I was of all this 'beautiful and lofty,' the deeper I kept sinking into my mire, and the more capable I was of getting completely stuck in it." |
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Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Work: Notes From Underground
Date: 1864
Language: Russian |
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| "You believe in a crystal edifice, forever indestructible; that is, in an edifice at which one can neither put out one's tongue on the sly nor make a fig in the pocket. Well, and perhaps I'm afraid of this edifice precisely because it is crystal and forever indestructible, and it will be impossible to put out one's tongue at it even on the sly." |
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Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Work: Notes From Underground
Date: 1864
Language: Russian |
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| “‘It's as if you...as if it's from a book,' she said, and again something like mockery suddenly sounded in her voice." |
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Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Work: Notes From Underground
Date: 1864
Language: Russian |
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| "Since there can be no talk of an independent ideology formulated by the working masses themselves in the process of their movement, the only choice is -- either bourgeois or socialist ideology." |
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Author: V.I. Lenin
Work: What Is To Be Done?
Date: 1902
Language: Russian |
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| "It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life." |
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Author: Sigmund Freud
Work: Civilization And Its Discontents
Date: 1929
Language: German |
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| "One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of 'Creation.'" |
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Author: Sigmund Freud
Work: Civilization And Its Discontents
Date: 1929
Language: German |
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| "The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction." |
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Author: Sigmund Freud
Work: Civilization And Its Discontents
Date: 1929
Language: German |
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| "To begin with, one will find in his poetry that luxuriance of movement, that at times spurting, at times showering exuberance, that ability to constantly and deeply stir the affective world -- all the traits characteristic of authentic poetry in contrast to the fake poetry, poisonous would-be poetry, constantly proliferating around it." |
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Author: Aimé Césaire
Work: Notebook Of A Return To A Native Land
Date: 1939
Language: French |
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| "At the end of daybreak, life prostrate, you don't know how to dispose of your aborted dreams, the river of life desperately torpid in its bed, neither turgid nor low, hesitant to flow, pitifully empty, the impartial heaviness of boredom distributing shade equally on all things, the air stagnant, unbroken by the brightness of a single bird." |
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Author: Aimé Césaire
Work: Notebook Of A Return To A Native Land
Date: 1939
Language: French |
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| "There can be no conception of the State which is not fundamentally a conception of life: philosophy or intuition, system of ideas evolving within the framework of logic or concentrated in a vision or a faith, but always, at least potentially, an organic conception of the world." |
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Author: Benito Mussolini
Work: Fascism
Date: 1932
Language: Italian |
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| "It was as though his spirit and mine had momentarily succeeded in bridging the gulf of language and tradition and meeting in utter intimacy. I hoped he liked me as well as I liked him. But I also knew that to retain my first impression of him I must not see him again; and needless to say I never did see him again. One was always making contacts of that kind in Spain." |
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Author: George Orwell
Work: Homage to Catalonia
Date: 1938
Language: English |
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Term
| "In outward appearance it was a town in which the wealthy classes had practically ceased to exist. Except for a small number of women and foreigners there were no 'well-dressed' people at all." |
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Author: George Orwell
Work: Homage to Catalonia
Date: 1938
Language: English |
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| "At that time revolutionary ballads of the naïvest kind, all about proletarian brotherhood and the wickedness of Mussolini, were being sold on the streets for a few centimes each." |
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Author: George Orwell
Work: Homage to Catalonia
Date: 1938
Language: English |
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| "In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy." |
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Author: George Orwell
Work: Homage to Catalonia
Date: 1938
Language: English |
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