Karl Marx Quotes

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

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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together

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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects

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Revolutions are the locomotives of history

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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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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist 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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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form

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

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

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

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

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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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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money

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

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

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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state

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