Karl Marx Quotes

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• My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

  Karl Marx

  America, Life Is, Capitalism

  "The Most Important Documentary On America Ever, Destroying America From Within". beforeitsnews.com. December 28, 2013.

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  Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

  Karl Marx

  People, Controlled

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  Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

  Karl Marx

  Ignorance, Opposites, Agony

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.709, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

  Karl Marx

  People, Laughing, Needs

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• Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

  Karl Marx

  Heritage, Nations

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• The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

  Karl Marx

  Mother, Children, Care

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• Communism begins where atheism begins.

  Karl Marx

  Atheism, Communism

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

  Karl Marx

  Cutting, People, Liberty

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• The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Political

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• We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

  Karl Marx

  Compassion, Excuse, Terror

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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• Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

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  Motivational, Business, Humorous

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• When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

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  Thinking, Suffering, Thinker

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• The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Historical, Politics

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• The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

  Karl Marx

  Rope, Lasts, Poverty

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• There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

  Karl Marx

  Past, Government, Historical

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.68, Haymarket Books

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

  Karl Marx

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Political

  Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).

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• A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

  Karl Marx

  Income, Development, Progressive

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• The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.

  Karl Marx

  Christian, Dream, Men

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

  Karl Marx

  Atheist, Philosophical, People

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  There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

  Karl Marx

  Rotten, Misery, Wealth

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1980). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels Collected Works 1858-60”, Intl Pub

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• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Poverty, Rich

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• The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Philosophical, Technology

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• ...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Order, Political

  Karl Marx (2015). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, p.40, Booklassic

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• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  Karl Marx

  Weed, Atheist, Fear

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• 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 sex, the ugly ones included.

  Karl Marx

  Sex, Progress, Ugly

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