Karl Marx Quotes

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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Change Interpret Philosophy Resistance World
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Absence History Opposite Peace Social
My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
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Capital Destroy God Life Objective
Communism 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.
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Appropriate Community Deprive Labour Power Product Society
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
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Book Machine One Liner
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
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Devil Especially Movement Peace
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Business Humour People Production Result Technology
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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Female Measure Position Progress Sex Social
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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Condition Heart Oppression People Religion Soul World
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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Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
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.
KARL MARX

Condition Heart Oppression People Religion Soul World
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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Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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Class History Society Struggle
Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
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Ability According Community Inspirational Need Politics
Democracy is the road to socialism.
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Democracy One Liner Road Social
Communism begins where atheism begins.
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Atheist Beginning Community One Liner
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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Accumulation Brutal Ignorance Misery Opposite Pole Slave Time Wealth
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Age Class Ideas Rule
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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Class Oppress Politics Power
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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Consicious Freedom Necessary
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Beyond Change Difference Quantity
In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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Belong Capital Himself Labour Reality
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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Analysis Appearance Commodity Extreme Obvious Physical Strange
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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Condition Demand Illusion Need
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
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Camp Greatness Society Split
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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Change Inspirational Task Understand World
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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Apparatus Army Court Executive Government Identity Tax

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