The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
KARL MARXBe careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
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In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.
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The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
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Man 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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The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life – the greater is the store of your estranged being.
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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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Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.
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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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Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
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Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
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Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
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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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Moments are the elements of profit.
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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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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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I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.
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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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There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
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My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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