Karl Marx quotes

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. (Karl Marx)
Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways the point is to change it. View quote
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. View quote
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. View quote
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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. View quote
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Capital is dead labor,that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. View quote
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. View quote
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. View quote
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The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence Abolition of private property. View quote
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. View quote
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Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver. (Karl Marx)
Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. View quote
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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. View quote
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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. View quote
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. View quote
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. View quote
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. View quote
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. View quote
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. View quote
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Religion... is the opium of the people. View quote
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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. (Karl Marx)
History always repeats itself twice first time as tragedy, second time as farce. View quote
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The religious world is but the reflex of the real world. View quote
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Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself. View quote
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. View quote
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