Karl Marx Quotes
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Der Weg zur Hölle ist jedoch mit guten Absichten gepflastert, und er konnte ebensogut der Absicht sein, Geld zu machen, ohne zu produzieren.
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Bourgeois society continuously brings forth the Jew from its own entrails.
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Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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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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Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.
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Surplus value is exactly equal to surplus labour; the increase of the one is exactly measured by the diminution of necessary labour.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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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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p. 36
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
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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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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Of all the animals kept by the farmer, the labourer, the instrumentum vocale, was,thenceforth, the most oppressed, the worst nourished, the most brutally treated.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.