Karl Marx quote: "Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation."

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet,...
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its ...
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its ...
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real...
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, ...
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course crea...
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from soc...
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but...
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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of gen...
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
KARL MARX

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of it...
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne...
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It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social b...
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twic...
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Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the p...
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags P...
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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church a...
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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in ...
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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he real...
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the rulin...
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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an...
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From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian,...
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Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of ...
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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accompli...
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The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and t...
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The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyl...
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In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the d...
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to ...
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The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilit...
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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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 busine...
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically differe...
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The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the pola...
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Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change i...
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The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
KARL MARX

A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of communism.
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All I know is I'm not a Marxist.
KARL MARX

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruli...
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under c...
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out ...
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From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.
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Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fi...
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Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closel...
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Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of th...
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man ...
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The product of mental labor -- science -- always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ...
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In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of...
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but...
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
KARL MARX

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourse...
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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ab...
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of special...
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various process...
KARL MARX

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the des...
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie...
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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations withi...
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be ful...
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is depend...
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live an...
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
KARL MARX

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
KARL MARX

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soul...
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine...
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but ...
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in socie...
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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition ex...
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the opp...
KARL MARX

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
KARL MARX

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man d...
KARL MARX

Last words are for people who haven't said anything in life.
KARL MARX

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change ...
KARL MARX

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the sp...
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The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
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Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
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Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which ...
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Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportu...
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The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge....
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Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.
KARL MARX

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
KARL MARX

From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need
KARL MARX

The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the...
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Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society t...
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A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered i...
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Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
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But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is de...
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American politics consist of two bands of baron robbers, alternately taking possession of and plunde...
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The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world, ...
KARL MARX

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion
KARL MARX

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers
KARL MARX

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
KARL MARX

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of it...
KARL MARX

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.
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All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coinci...
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The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat
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Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex
KARL MARX

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the pola...
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There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep ...
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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Freeman a...
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The dictatorship of the proletariat.
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...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among ot...
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The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual ...
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I am not a Marxist.
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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek ...
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Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual lo...
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The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humili...
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Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in h...
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It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the ...
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Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps
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When we bought this house, we designated this room the library,
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History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce.
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It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which th...
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose bu...
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« Les hommes font l'histoire »
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The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilita...
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La classe des ouvriers modernes, qui ne vivent qu'à la condition de trouver du travail, et qui n'en...
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The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public h...
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Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it
KARL MARX

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it
KARL MARX

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it
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Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change i...
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No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind
KARL MARX

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

[In a letter about the p...
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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

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