It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
KARL MARXCommunism 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.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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Communism begins where atheism begins.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
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Men 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.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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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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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
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Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
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Moments are the elements of profit.
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I am nothing but I must be everything.
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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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Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.
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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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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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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
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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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The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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Surround yourself with people who make you happy.
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I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
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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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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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