Karl Marx Quotes

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Karl Marx

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : May 5, 1818

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

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The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

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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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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

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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.

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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

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