Karl Marx Quotes

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Karl Marx

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : May 5, 1818

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

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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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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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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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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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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

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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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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

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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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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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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 only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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