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Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. — Karl Marx

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality ... [He was] Caesar himself. — Karl Marx

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off. — Karl Marx

The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at. — Karl Marx

I am nothing but I must be everything. — Karl Marx

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. — Karl Marx

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

Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher

A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains. — Karl Marx

A machine condemned to devour books and then throw them , in a changed form , on the dunghill of history . — Karl Marx

PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS — Karl Marx

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation. — Karl Marx

The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living. — Karl Marx

Music is the mirror of reality. — Karl Marx

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing. — Niall Ferguson

Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome. — Karl Marx

Capital, therefore, announces from its first appearance a new epoch in the process of social production. — Karl Marx

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. — Karl Marx

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself. — Karl Marx

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

Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor. — Karl Marx

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions. — Karl Marx

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses — Karl Marx

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure. — Karl Marx

Karl Marx famously called religion 'the opiate of the masses.' Buddhism, — John Green

The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly. — Muhammad Iqbal

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond. — Karl Marx

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets! — Karl Marx

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

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy — Karl Marx

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism. — Karl Marx

Theory becomes realized among a people only in so far as it represents the realization of that people's needs. — Karl Marx

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression. — Karl Marx

The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present — Karl Marx

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. — Karl Marx

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. — Karl Marx

It is in this sense that Franklin says, war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating. — Karl Marx

Moments are the elements of profit — Karl Marx

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash. — Karl Marx

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. — Karl Marx

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary — Karl Marx

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money. — Karl Marx

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms. — Karl Marx

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. — Karl Marx

Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable. — Karl Marx

One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie. — Karl Marx

You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things. — Karl Marx

Machinery which is not used is not capital. — Karl Marx

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things. — Karl Marx

If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin. — Karl Marx

One capitalist always kills many. — Karl Marx

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. — Karl Marx

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. — Karl Marx

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free. — Robert Frost

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got — Karl Marx

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. — Karl Marx

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

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself. — Karl Marx

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. — Karl Marx

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. — Karl Marx

As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse. — Karl Marx

They are my slaves [ books and papers ] and they must serve me as I please. — Karl Marx

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

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. — Noam Chomsky

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself. — Karl Marx

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. — Karl Marx

Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people. — Jo Walton

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth. — Karl Marx

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. — Karl Marx

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. — Karl Marx

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself. — Karl Marx

So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer. — Karl Marx

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs. — Karl Marx

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery — Karl Marx

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry — Karl Marx

I am a machine condemned to devour books. — Karl Marx

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude. — Karl Marx

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people. — Karl Marx

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

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is. — Karl Marx

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 his own hand. — Karl Marx

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

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

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. — Karl Marx

Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property. — Karl Marx

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded. — Karl Marx

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

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. — Karl Marx

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes. — Karl Marx

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. — Karl Marx

This class has always to sacrifice a part of itself in order not to be wholly destroyed. — Karl Marx

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker. — Karl Marx

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. — Karl Marx

Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life. — Karl Marx

Misery motivates, not utopia. — Karl Marx

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish. — Karl Marx

People make their own history, as Karl Marx once memorably observed, but not under conditions of their own choosing. — Richard J. Evans

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it — Karl Marx

He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart. — Karl Marx

The English Established Church ... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. — Karl Marx