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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, n

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

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Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation. – Karl Marx

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Production
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. – Karl Marx

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Change
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. – Karl Marx

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Health
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. – Karl Marx

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Society

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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Society

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. – John Madden

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Society

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. – Michel Foucault

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Society

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