QUOTES by Karl Marx
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The extremity of this bondage is that it is only as a worker that he continues to maintain himself as a physical subject, and that it is only as a physical subject that he is a worker.
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The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present
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As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.
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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 labour of others by means of such appropriation.
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
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The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.
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In fact, the proposition that man’s species nature is estranged from him means that one man is estranged from the other, as each of them is from man’s essential nature.
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Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the poison of misanthropy and despair.
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All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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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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Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.
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Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property.
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The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.
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The new era differs from the old chiefly in that the lash begins to imagine itself possessed of genius.
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Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is indeed man’s self-consciousness and self-awareness as long as he has not found his feet in the universe.
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Atheism” ... reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogy man. Marx, Letter to 30 November 1842
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Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
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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.
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The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.
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Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.
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Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.
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The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.
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Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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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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It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.
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Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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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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