Karl Marx Quotes

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• Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal…
• Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
• All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
• Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.
• Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of…
• Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The…
• The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much
• There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.
• If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
• In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist…
• We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of…
• Communism begins where atheism begins...
• I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.
• With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I…
• I am nothing and should be everything.
• Misery motivates, not utopia.
• Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.
• ...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789...…
• ...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained…
• ...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old…

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