Karl Marx Quotes
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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The unity is brought about by force.
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If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
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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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Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
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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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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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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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We see then, commodities are in love with money, but 'the course of true love never did run smooth'.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
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(That is it!)
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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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The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
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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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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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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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The entire process seems simple and natural, i.e., possesses the naturalness of a shallow rationalism.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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Prometheus ist der vornehmste Heilige und Märtyrer im philosophischen Kalender.
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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It is impossible to persue this nonsense any further.