Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
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.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
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Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
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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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Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
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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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Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
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Surround yourself with people who make you happy.
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All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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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.
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A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
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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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Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
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Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.
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We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
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The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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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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I am nothing but I must be everything.
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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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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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