Karl Marx Quotes
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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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Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
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The unity is brought about by force.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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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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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.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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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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(That is it!)
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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 worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
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Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.
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We see then, commodities are in love with money, but 'the course of true love never did run smooth'.
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The entire process seems simple and natural, i.e., possesses the naturalness of a shallow rationalism.
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If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.
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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 object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
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What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
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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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It is impossible to persue this nonsense any further.
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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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Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.