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Own Quotes by Karl Marx
- 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…
- What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
- Men make their own history
- Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
- 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…
- A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains.
- The Jewish people as a whole will be its own Messiah. It will attain world domination by the dissolution of other races...and by the establishment…
- If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond…
- Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of…
- It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History…
- The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
- Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.
- Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves,…
- Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but…
- In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie…
- The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think,…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov