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Karl Marx
Quotes by Karl Marx
Quotes by Karl Marx
“Democracy is the road to socialism.”
Karl Marx
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
Karl Marx
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Karl Marx
“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”
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“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”
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“Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”
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“Religion is the opium of the masses.”
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“Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”
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“If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.”
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“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”
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“For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.”
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“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”
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“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
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“A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”
Karl Marx
“Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.”
Karl Marx
“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”
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“The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.”
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“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.”
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“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity”
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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.”
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“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.”
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“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”
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“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”
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“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.”
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“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”
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“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”
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“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”
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“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
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“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
Karl Marx
“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
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