All Karl Marx Quotes
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Karl Marx
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Karl Marx
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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.
Karl Marx
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx
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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 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.
Karl Marx
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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.
Karl Marx
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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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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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