Karl Marx Quotes
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
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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.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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It goes without saying that the normal durability of fixed capital is calculated on the supposition that all the conditions under which it can perform its functions normally during that time are fulfilled, just as we assume, in placing a mans life at 30 years on the average,that he will wash himself.
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But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
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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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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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He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for his maintenance, and for the propagation of his race.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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We cannot always choose the vocation to which we believe we are called. Our social relations, to some extent, have already begun to form before we are in a position to determine them.
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Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
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The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.
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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
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If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
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These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.
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- man's heart is a wonderful thing, especially when carried in the purse -
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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.