Karl Heinrich Marx Quotes

• I am not a Marxist.

  Karl Heinrich Marx

• Life is too short to be anything but happy.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Anything, Happy

• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

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  Topics in History

  Tags in Living, Men

• Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

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  Tags in Dull

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

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• For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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  Tags in Bureaucrat

• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

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  Topics in Experience

• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  Karl Heinrich Marx

  Topics in Experience

• Democracy is the road to socialism.

  Karl Heinrich Marx

  Topics in Democracy

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Soil

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

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  Topics in Health

  Tags in Compulsion

• Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

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  Tags in Capitalism

• Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Capitalism, Labor

• Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

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  Topics in Art

• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair s*x, the ugly ones included.

  Karl Heinrich Marx

  Topics in History, Progress

• A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

  Karl Heinrich Marx

  Tags in Communism

• A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

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  Tags in Trivial

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

  Karl Heinrich Marx

  Topics in Age, Funny

• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this

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  Topics in History, Humanity

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

  Karl Heinrich Marx

  Topics in History

Karl Heinrich Marx (83)

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

About

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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