| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38125 |
| QUOTATION: | The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Karl Marx (1818–1883), German political theorist, social philosopher. Address of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association on “The Civil War in France,” (1871), repr. In Selected Works, vol. 2 (1942). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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