Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
KARL MARXMen make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
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Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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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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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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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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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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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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As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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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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The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
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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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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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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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A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
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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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Moments are the elements of profit.
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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
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Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
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Surround yourself with people who make you happy.
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