Karl Heinrich Marx Quotes

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

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• The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

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• The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

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

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• Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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• Religion is the opium of the masses.

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

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

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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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• Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

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

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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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• Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

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• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

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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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• 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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  Topics in Politics

• It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

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

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• In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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Karl Heinrich Marx (83)

Birth:	5th May, 1818
Death:	14th March, 1883
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher

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Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for the current understanding of labour and its relation to capital, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought. He published numerous books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.

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