Karl Marx Quotes
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Bourgeois society continuously brings forth the Jew from its own entrails.
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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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Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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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 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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The only possible solution which will preserve Germany’s honor and Germany’s interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.
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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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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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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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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
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If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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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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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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p. 36
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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 ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.