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Karl Marx Quotes

Biography: Karl Marx is known for his foundational role in the development of com... more Biography: Karl Marx is known for his foundational role in the development of communist ideology. A German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary socialist, he co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with Friedrich Engels and wrote "Das Kapital," critiquing capitalism. Marx's ideas influenced global historical movements and political systems. less

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions"

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"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but their social being that determines their consciousness"

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"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion"

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"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce"

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"The production of ideas of conceptions of consciousness is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men the language of real life"

Tags: Philosophy, Consciousness, Language, Ideas, Materialism

"Revolutions are the locomotives of history"

Tags: Change, Transformation, Progress, Metaphor, History

"Go on get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough"

Tags: Wisdom, Communication, Life philosophy, Legacy, Famous quotes

"The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property"

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

Tags: Relationships, Society, Community, Interconnectedness, Social dynamics

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament"

Tags: Government, Democracy, Oppression, Class struggle, Voting

"The more of himself man attributes to God the less he has left in himself"

Tags: Philosophy, Self-awareness, Self-discovery, Human nature, Spirituality

"Men make their own history but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already given and transmitted from the past"

Tags: History, Legacy, Free will, Determinism, Historical context

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

Tags: Class struggle, Marxism, Economic theory, Labor, Exploitation

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form"

Tags: Philosophy, Wisdom, Human nature, Critical thinking, Enlightenment

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

Tags: Social justice, Oppression, Poverty, Inequality, Economic disparity