Best 50 Quotes From The Great German Socialist And Philosopher, Karl Marx

Karl Marx was born on 5 may 1818 to Heinrich Marx and Henrietta Pressburg, he was a philosopher, economist sociologist, journalist, and the revolutionary socialist. Born in trier to a middle-class family, he later studied political economy and Hegelian philosophy. As an adult, Marx became stateless and spent much of his life in London, England, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and published various works, the most well-known being the 1848 pamphlet the communist manifesto. His work has since influenced subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history. He was died on 14^th march 1883.

Top 50 Quotes Of Karl Marx

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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

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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 history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!

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To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

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

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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

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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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All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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History is the judge — its executioner, the proletarian.

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The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

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The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

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

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Moments are the elements of profit

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The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

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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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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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Democracy is the road to socialism.

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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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Landlords like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

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Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.

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Religion is the opium of the masses.

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Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

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I am a machine condemned to devour books.

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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalist to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

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A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

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Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

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Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!

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I am nothing but I must be everything.

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

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The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist.

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The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question.

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The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

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The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

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Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

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All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

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