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Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love. (Karl Marx)
To be radical is to grasp things by the root. View quote
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. View quote
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. View quote
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. View quote
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Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary. View quote
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Democracy is the road to socialism. View quote
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. View quote
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A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains. View quote
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The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living. View quote
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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent. (Karl Marx)
All I know is I'm not a Marxist. View quote
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Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution. View quote
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Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation. View quote
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The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy . View quote
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The unity is brought about by force . View quote
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A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. View quote
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The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty. View quote
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In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety. View quote
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Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man? View quote
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The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. (Karl Marx)
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope. View quote
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. View quote
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. View quote
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All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. View quote
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