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Inspirational Quotes by Karl Marx

58 Inspirational quotes by Karl Marx

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Money is described as turning sacred things into mere items and feeding greed. Language is said to shape ideas, not exist on its own. A person's identity is tied to the work they do and how they do it. These thoughts show a critical view of wealth, communication, and labor.

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Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.

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The unity is brought about by force .

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Imperialism is da woist thing I ever hoid!

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Communism begins where atheism begins...

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Ideas do not exist separately from language.

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Parrots are the opium of the people

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Men make their own history

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They don't know it, but they are doing it.

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A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains.

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The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.

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Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

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Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

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If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

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The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

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“Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”

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Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.

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“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have…

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The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

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The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

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Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

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As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and…

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The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.

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Misery motivates, not utopia.

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I am a machine condemned to devour books.

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One capitalist always kills many.

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All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

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The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

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Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

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I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.

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I am nothing and should be everything.

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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .

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I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

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No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

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The best thing for rich people to do is become Batman

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The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

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Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history

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If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.

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Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

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Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

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The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

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