Karl Marx

Karl Marx

"The more of himself man attributes to God the less he has left in himself."
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"The more of himself man attributes to God the less he has left in himself."
Karl Marx
"All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it."
Karl Marx
"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."
Karl Marx
"Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck."
Karl Marx
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]"
Karl Marx Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
"If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them"
Karl Marx
"...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be."
Karl Marx
"The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power, and that therefore the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, have become the first class in society."
Karl Marx
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."
Karl Marx
"Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself."
Karl Marx
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
Karl Marx
"Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence."
Karl Marx
"The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage."
Karl Marx
"Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible."
Karl Marx
"He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart."
Karl Marx
"Ignorance never yet helped anybody."
Karl Marx
"One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie."
Karl Marx
"[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament,"
Karl Marx
"Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks."
Karl Marx
"History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends."
Karl Marx
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