Quote by Karl Marx
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitali

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. – Karl Marx

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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer. – Karl Marx

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Technology
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Karl Marx
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. – Karl Marx

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Happiness
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Karl Marx
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. – Karl Marx

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Money
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Karl Marx
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Other Quotes from
Machines, Machinery
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. – Karel Capek

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. – Lewis Mumford

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. – Edward Dahlberg

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

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The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts:
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports. – Piet Hein

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Sports

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Integrity

Zoos are becoming facsimiles – or perhaps caricatures – of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. – Michael Fox, Sierra, November-December 1990

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Environment