Karl Marx quotes
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Karl Marx. (1818 - 1883). German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary.
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Pinpricks and Clubs
“It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.”
- Source: Letter from Marx to Arnold Ruge (25 January 1843), after the Prussian government dissolved the newspaper Neue Rheinische Zeitung, of which Marx was the editor.
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- Karl_Marx_quotes
- Karl_Marx_quotes/Pinpricks_and_Clubs
- Keywords: Menial_quotes Freedom_quotes Fighting_quotes Violence_quotes Hypocrisy_quotes Stupidity_quotes Arbitrariness_quotes Government_quotes Language_quotes Words_quotes Subjugation_quotes Bad_quotes Duty_quotes Pinprick_quotes Club_quotes Tired_quotes Bowing_quotes Scrape_quotes Dodge_quotes Hair_quotes Split_quotes Give_quotes
Religion
“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo. Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.”
- Source: Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Introduction..., p. 1 (1843).
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- Karl_Marx_quotes/Religion
- Keywords: Religion_quotes Suffering_quotes Protest_quotes Oppression_quotes World_quotes Heartless_quotes Soul_quotes Opium_quotes Abolition_quotes Illusion_quotes Happiness_quotes People_quotes Humanity_quotes Criticism_quotes Embryo_quotes Crying_quotes Subjugation_quotes Chain_quotes Fantasy_quotes Consolation_quotes Flower_quotes Expression_quotes Sigh_quotes Creature_quotes Heart_quotes Demand_quotes Vale_quotes Tear_quotes Halo_quotes Bear_quotes Pluck_quotes
Interpret or Change
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
- Original German: "Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern."
- Source: Theses on Feuerbach" (1845), Thesis 11, Marx Engels Selected Works,(MESW), Volume I, p. 15; these words are also engraved upon his grave. First published as an appendix to the pamphlet Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy by Friedrich Engels (1886). Also Ludwig Feuerbach und der Ausgang der klassischen deutschen Philosophie: Mit ... By Friedrich Engels
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- Karl_Marx_quotes
- Karl_Marx_quotes/Interpret_or_Change
Product of Mental Labor is Science
“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.”
- Source: Addenda, "Relative and Absolute Surplus Value" in Economic Manuscripts (1861-63)
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- Karl_Marx_quotes/Product_of_Mental_Labor_is_Science
Feminine Ferment
“Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).”
- Source: Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann, dated 12 December 1868.
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- Karl_Marx_quotes
- Karl_Marx_quotes/Feminine_Ferment
Conquest
“If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them.”
- Source: The Abolition of Landed Property (3 December 1869)
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- Karl_Marx_quotes/Conquest
Abilities and Needs
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
- Source: The Criticism of the Gotha Program (1875).
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- Karl_Marx_quotes
- Karl_Marx_quotes/Abilities_and_Needs
- Keywords: Ability_quotes Needs_quotes Socialism_quotes
