The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Hitlerism exercised its strong international and inter-European appeal during the thirties because racism, although a state doctrine only in Germany, had been a powerful trend in public opinion everywhere.
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The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to ‘demand’ its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.
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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
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Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.
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Justice demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.
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A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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What are we “doing” when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally always surrounded by our fellow men, are together with no one but ourselves?
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Tools and instruments which can ease the effort of labor considerably are themselves not a product of labor but of work; they do not belong in the process of consumption but are part and parcel of the world of use objects.
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A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced upon his throne.
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