Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.Steven Pinker
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.Karl Marx
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.Karl Marx
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.Karl Marx
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.Karl Marx
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.Karl Marx
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.Karl Marx
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.Karl Marx
