Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
KARL MARXMan makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.
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Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.
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The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
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I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
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We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
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In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.
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The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
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All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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I am a machine condemned to devour books.
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Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
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I am nothing but I must be everything.
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It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
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Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
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Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
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Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.
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Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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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.
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The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
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Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.
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Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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