Letter to Blumentritt, written at Leipzig,(22 August 1886)
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
The Criticism of the Gotha Program (1875)
Variant: Variant translation: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876) Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism
As quoted in The Old Order and the New (1890) by J. Morris Davidson
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLVII: On master and slave
Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac
“November: Axe-in-Hand”, p. 68.
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "November: Axe-in-Hand," "November: A Mighty Fortress," and "December: Pines above the Snow"
Context: I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.
“To each according to his threat advantage does not count as a principle of justice.”
John Rawls book A Theory of Justice
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter III, Section 24, pg. 141
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
On patent controversies regarding the invention of Radio and other things, as quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); as quoted in Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 73 ISBN 0760710058 </small> ; also in Tesla: Man Out of Time (2001) by Margaret Cheney, p. 230 <small> ISBN 0743215362
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) American activist
Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 48
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
1950s, First Inaugural Address (1953)
“Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.”
Kenneth N. Waltz book Man, the State, and War
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter II, The First Image, p. 23
