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Pain
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
-Karl Marx
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Philosophy
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
-Karl Marx
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Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
-Karl Marx
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Politics
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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.
-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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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
-Karl Marx
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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.
-Karl Marx
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Production
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Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
-Karl Marx
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Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.
-Karl Marx
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Religion
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Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
-Karl Marx, Criticism of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
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From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.
-Karl Marx
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Revolution
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!
-Karl Marx
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In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.
-Karl Marx
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Science
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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 product of mental labor -- science -- always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
-Karl Marx
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Shopping
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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.
-Karl Marx
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Socialism
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From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.
-Karl Marx
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Society
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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
-Karl Marx
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Solitude
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I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.
-Karl Marx
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Taxation
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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
-Karl Marx
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Time
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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
-Karl Marx
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Unity
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The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
-Karl Marx
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Value
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
-Karl Marx
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Wealth
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
-Karl Marx
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Work
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
-Karl Marx
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Books by and about Karl Marx