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Karl Marx: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867) Chapter 9.
• Cited in 1978 by Ruth M. Davis, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Advanced Technology, attributed to Vladimir Lenin:
• American Association for the Advancement of Science. (1978). Quantity a Key to Military Strength. Science, 200(4346), 1134-1134. Available online at https://science.sciencemag.org/content/200/4346/1134.
• Previously presumed to be coined by Thomas A. Callaghan Jr., defense consultant and director of Allied Interdependence program in a 1979 article: “Quantity has a Quality All Its Own,” Allied Interdependence Newsletter No. 13, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 21 June 1979, cited in Naval War College Review, “How much is not enough? The non-nuclear air battle in NATO's central region”, Volume 33, March-April (1980), footnote on p. 77, quotation on p. 68, echoing similar sentiments by Sam Nunn ("at some point numbers do count.").
• Widely misattributed to Carl von Clausewitz, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leonid Brezhnev, especially to Stalin.
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Quantity has a quality all its own.

— Karl Marx on Quantity

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• Cited in 1978 by Ruth M. Davis, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Advanced Technology, attributed to Vladimir Lenin:
• American Association for the Advancement of Science. (1978). Quantity a Key to Military Strength. Science, 200(4346), 1134-1134. Available online at https://science.sciencemag.org/content/200/4346/1134.
• Previously presumed to be coined by Thomas A. Callaghan Jr., defense consultant and director of Allied Interdependence program in a 1979 article: “Quantity has a Quality All Its Own,” Allied Interdependence Newsletter No. 13, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 21 June 1979, cited in Naval War College Review, “How much is not enough? The non-nuclear air battle in NATO's central region”, Volume 33, March-April (1980), footnote on p. 77, quotation on p. 68, echoing similar sentiments by Sam Nunn ("at some point numbers do count.").
• Widely misattributed to Carl von Clausewitz, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leonid Brezhnev, especially to Stalin." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Karl Marx

About Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German political philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for labor theory of value, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought. He published many works during his lifetime, including The Communist Manifesto (1848) and the first volume of Das Kapital (1867), the two later volumes being completed by his collaborator Friedrich Engels.