Karl Marx Quotes
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Der Philosoph legt sich – also selbst eine abstrakte Gestalt des entfremdeten Menschen – als den Maßstab der entfremdeten Welt an.
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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 unity is brought about by force.
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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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Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.
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In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
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Die Klasse, welche die herrschende materielle Macht der Gesellschaft ist, ist zugleich ihre herrschende geistige Macht. Die Klasse, die die Mittel zur materiellen Produktion zu ihrer Verfügung hat, disponiert damit zugleich über die Mittel zur geistigen Produktion.
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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
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The object before us, to begin with, material production.
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
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If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.
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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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It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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Prometheus ist der vornehmste Heilige und Märtyrer im philosophischen Kalender.
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A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.
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A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increase capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.
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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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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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In England women are still occasionally used instead of horses for hauling canal boats, because the labour required to produce horses and machines is an accurately known quantity, while that required to maintain the women of the surplus population is below all calculation.