Karl Marx Quotes
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Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.
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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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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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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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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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What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.
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But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.
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- man's heart is a wonderful thing, especially when carried in the purse -
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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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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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The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.
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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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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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In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
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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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Mit allen ihren Mängeln erscheint diese Konstitution mitten in der russisch−preußisch−österreichischen Barbarei als das einzige Freiheitswerk, das Osteuropa je selbständig hervorgebracht hat. Und sie ging ausschließlich von der bevorrechteten Klasse, dem Adel, aus. Die Weltgeschichte bietet kein andres Beispiel von ähnlichem Adel des Adels.
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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
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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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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.