Karl Marx Quotes
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But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
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Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.
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The criticism of religion ends with the doctrine that man is the supreme being for man. It ends, therefore, with the categorical imperative to overthrow all those conditions in which man is an abased, enslaved, abandoned, contemptible being.
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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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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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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.
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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
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Das Philosophisch-Werden der Welt ist zugleich ein Weltlich-Werden der Philosophie; ihre Verwirklichung ist zugleich ihr Verlust.
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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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In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
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What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.
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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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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.
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Denn der Kapitalismus ist schon in der Grundlage aufgehoben durch die Voraussetzung, daß der Genuß als treibendes Motiv wirkt, nicht die Bereicherung selbst.
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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.