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.
KARL MARXThere 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.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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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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The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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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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All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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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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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
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Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!
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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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People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.
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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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Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.
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