Karl Marx Quotes

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Karl Marx

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : May 5, 1818

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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Democracy is the road to socialism.

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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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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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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

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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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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

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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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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

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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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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

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