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Karl Marx Quotes - Page 5

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They don't know it, but they are doing it.

They don't know it, but they are doing it.

Clean Air, Knows

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

God, Men, Attributes

Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

Men, Circumstances

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

Opposites, Luxury

"Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 448, 1857 - 1858.

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.

Lying, Past, Nightmare

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

Mathematical, Calculus, Integral Calculus

Karl Marx (1983). “Mathematical Manuscripts of Karl Marx”

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia

Stars, Russia, Tactics

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1952). “The Russian menace to Europe: a collection of articles, speeches, letters, and news dispatches, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels”

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Technology, Together, Soil

Karl Marx (1992). “Marx's Capital”, Lawrence & Wishart Limited

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

Party, Liberty, May

Karl Marx (2015). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, p.18, Booklassic

...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.

Communication, Ideas, Order

Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: 1844-45”, International Pub

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

Men, Creation Of Man, World

Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.113, Courier Corporation

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?

Money, Men, Ties

Karl Marx, Martin Milligan (1974). “Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844”

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

Communication, Winning, Class

BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.82, BookCaps Study Guides

The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much

Inspiration, Men, He Man

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

Needs, Consumption, Productions

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1987). “Karl Marx Frederick Engels: Collected Works 1857-61”, International Pub

Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

Mother, Father, Use

Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.227, Hackett Publishing

...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

Communication, Agony, Way

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.298, Oxford University Press, USA

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.

Taken, Together, Succeed

Karl Marx (1977). “Capital: a critique of political economy”, Vintage

We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

Rope, Capitalist, Sells

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

Mean, Community, Individual

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.83, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!

Moses, Prophet

Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.

Men, Self, Essence

Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.71, Hackett Publishing

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

Machines, May, Weapons

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

Spiritual, Class, Common Sense

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

Love, Philosophy, World

"The German Ideology". Book by Karl Marx (p. 103), 1845-1846.

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