The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (299 page)
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Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
1818–83
Religion is …the opium of the people.
A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
(1843–4) introduction.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Critique of the Gotha Programme
(written 1875, but of earlier origin) and "The formula of Communism, as propounded by Cabet, may be expressed thus:—"the duty of each is according to his faculties; his right according to his wants” " in
North British Review
(1849) vol 10
Hegel says somewhere that all great events and personalities in world history reappear in one fashion or another. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
(1852) sect. 1.
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.
the phrase "dictatorship of the proletariat" had been used earlier in the Constitution of the World Society of Revolutionary Communists (1850), signed by Marx and others
letter to Georg Weydemeyer 5 March 1852; Marx claimed that the phrase had been coined by Auguste Blanqui (1805–81), but it has not been found in this form in Blanqui's work
1818–83 and
Engels, Friedrich
1820–95
A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.
The Communist Manifesto
(1848) opening words
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
The Communist Manifesto
(1848) pt. 1
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
working men of all countries, unite!
commonly rendered as "Workers of the world, unite!"
The Communist Manifesto
(1848) closing words (from the 1888 translation by Samuel Moore, edited by Engels)
1867–1953
All
this
thrown away for
that
.
on returning home to Marlborough House, London after the abdication of her son, King Edward VIII, December 1936
David Duff
George and Elizabeth
(1983) ch. 10
I do not think you have ever realised the shock, which the attitude you took up caused your family and the whole nation. It seemed inconceivable to those who had made such sacrifices during the war that you, as their King, refused a lesser sacrifice.
letter to the Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII), July 1938
, Queen of Scots 1542–87
Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.
to the commissioners appointed to try her at Fotheringhay, 13 October 1586
Antonia Fraser
Mary Queen of Scots
(1969) ch. 25
En ma fin git mon commencement.In my end is my beginning.
motto embroidered with an emblem of her mother, Mary of Guise, and quoted in a letter from William Drummond of Hawthornden to Ben Jonson in 1619.
Tudor 1516–58
When I am dead and opened, you shall find "Calais" lying in my heart.
Holinshed's Chronicles
vol. 4 (1808)
1878–1967
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.
"Cargoes" (1903).
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
"I must down to the seas" in the original of 1902, possibly a misprint
"Sea Fever" (1902)