...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism.
Karl MarxScience and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.
Karl MarxSociety is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.
Karl MarxWe have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
Karl Marx