Karl Marx Quotes

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A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.

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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

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The product of mental labor — science — always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. If it be useless, the labor contained in it is useless, cannot be reckoned as labor, and cannot therefore create value.

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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world…It is the opium of the people.

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Capital is money, capital is commodities. … By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

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In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.

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Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.

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Prominent because of the flatness of the surrounding countryside.

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The realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

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It is the ultimate aim of this work, to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society.

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Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

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Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

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As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah, so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital.

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The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

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One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

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For the world to become philosophic amounts to philosophy's becoming world-order reality; and it means that philosophy, at the same time that it is realized, disappears.

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In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

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An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

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

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It is now perfectly clear to me that, as the shape of his head and the growth of his hair indicate, he is descendant from the negroes who joined in the flight of Moses from Egypt (unless his mother or grandmother on the father's side was crossed with a nigger). Now this union of Jewishness to Germanness on a negro basis was bound to produce an extraordinary hybrid. The importunity of the fellow is also niggerlike.

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