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.
KARL MARXThe less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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Surround yourself with people who make you happy.
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I am nothing but I must be everything.
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Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
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Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
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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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Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
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