Karl Marx Quotes
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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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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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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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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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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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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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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(That is it!)
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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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The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
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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 object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
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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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The entire process seems simple and natural, i.e., possesses the naturalness of a shallow rationalism.
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In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.
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It is impossible to persue this nonsense any further.
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The whole mystery of commodities, all the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities, vanishes therefore, so soon as we come to other forms of production.
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Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman.
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If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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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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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.