Karl Marx quotes - page 6

From another side: is Achilles possible with powder and lead? Or the Iliad with the printing press, not to mention the printing machine? Do not the song and saga of the muse necessarily come to an end with the printer's bar, hence do not the necessary conditions of epic poetry vanish? (Karl Marx)
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew - not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man - and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general. View quote
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man's heart is a wonderful thing, especially when carried in the purse. View quote
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We have just seen that, apart from money-capital, circulating capital is only another name for commodity-capital. But to the extent that labour power circulates in the market,it is not capital, no form of commodity-capital. It is not capital at all; the labourer is not a capitalist, although he brings a commodity to market, namely his own skin. View quote
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It is impossible to pursue this nonsense any further. View quote
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Your favourite virtue ... Simplicity Your favourite virtue in man ... Strength Your favourite virtue in woman ... Weakness Your chief characteristic ... Singleness of purpose Your idea of happiness ... To fight Your idea of misery ... Submission The vice you excuse most ... Gullibility The vice you detest most ... Servility Your aversion ... Martin Tupper Favourite occupation ... Book-worming Favourite poet ... Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Goethe Favourite prose-writer ... Diderot Favourite hero ... Spartacus, Kepler Favourite heroine ... Gretchen [Heroine of Goethe's Faust] Favourite flower ... Daphne Favourite colour ... Red Favourite name ... Laura, Jenny Favourite dish ... Fish Favourite maxim ... Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me, Terence] Favourite motto ... De omnibus dubitandum [Everything must be doubted]. View quote
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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. View quote
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Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through. View quote
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. View quote
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. View quote
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All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature. (Karl Marx)
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital. View quote
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Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted from the past. View quote
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The entire process seems simple and natural, i. e., possesses the naturalness of a shallow rationalism. View quote
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The process is so complicated that it offers ever so many occasions for running abnormally. View quote
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Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough! View quote
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. View quote
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The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win. View quote
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In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. View quote
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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. View quote
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Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. 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. (Karl Marx)
Instead of deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament, universal suffrage was to serve the people, constituted in Communes, as individual suffrage serves every other employer in the search for the workmen and managers in his business. View quote
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On the other hand one must not entertain any fantastic illusions on the productive power of the credit system, so far as it supplies or sets in motion money-capital. View quote
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So far as living instruments of labour are concerned, for instance horses, their reproduction is timed by nature itself. Their average lifetime as instruments of labour is determined by the laws of nature. As soon as this term has expired they must be replaced by new ones. A horse cannot be replaced piecemeal; it must be replaced by another horse. View quote
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The worker's existence is thus brought under the same condition as the existence of every other commodity. The worker has become a commodity, and it is a bit of luck for him if he can find a buyer, And the demand on which the life of the worker depends, depends on the whim of the rich and the capitalists. View quote
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