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.
KARL MARXEvery opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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Your favourite virtue – Simplicity.
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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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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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I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
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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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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
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Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
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We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
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All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
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